Last deal

$75M

Amount

Series B

Stage

18.04.2019

Date

2

all rounds

$113M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

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About Company
Arrakis Therapeutics develops drugs to treat neurological disorders and other diseases using a drug discovery platform that targets RNA.

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founded date

01.01.2015

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series B

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's platform integrates RNA bioinformatics, chemical biology tools, and RNA-directed medicinal chemistry to produce a pipeline of small-molecule compounds that act directly on RNA. This approach allows Arrakis to reach hundreds of biological targets not currently accessible to medicine, including known targets previously considered “undruggable.” The company's mission is to impact millions of patients by opening up a new path for discovering RNA-targeted medicines, and they are led by a team of skilled scientists and drug development leaders who are inventive yet pragmatic.
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Employee Profiles
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Dina Keratsis

Executive asssitant

Meizhong Jin

Senior director - chemistry

Alexandra Bartlett

Senior research associate

Donovan Chin

Director of computational drug discovery and structural biology

Heather Lounsbury

Vp, business and technical operations

James Barsoum

James Barsoum

Senior Vice President Research

Michael Gilman

Michael Gilman

CEO

Michael Gilman

Michael Gilman

Chief Executive Officer

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