Last deal

$95M

Amount

Post-IPO Equity

Stage

11.03.2024

Date

3

all rounds

$280M

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date founded

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About Company
LEXEO Therapeutics is a clinical-stage gene therapy biotechnology company focused on hereditary and acquired diseases of high unmet needs.

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founded date

01.01.2018

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Post-IPO Equity

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Private

Description

Using Adeno-associated viruses, LEXEO Therapeutics is developing a diverse pipeline of gene therapy candidates to address rare and non-rare monogenic diseases, hereditary and acquired diseases across a spectrum of patient population sizes, and a range of unmet medical needs. The company collaborates with Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Genetic Medicine to advance its pre-clinical pipeline and aims to advance clinical programs through to commercialization. LEXEO Therapeutics has partnerships and exclusive licenses with leading academic laboratories and is led by experts in genetic medicines, rare disease drug development, manufacturing, and commercialization.
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R. Nolan Townsend

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