Last deal

$80M

Amount

Series C

Stage

19.11.2020

Date

3

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$146.5M

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About Company
Imago is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing new medicines for the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).

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Imago

founded date

01.01.2012

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For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

Imago BioSciences is a San Francisco-based clinical development company that leverages the skills and extensive experience of its team and investors to focus on a small family of orphan diseases. The company is developing novel small molecule product candidates that target lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), an enzyme that plays a central role in the production of blood cells in the bone marrow. Imago is evaluating Bomedemstat, an orally available, small molecule inhibitor of LSD1, as a potentially disease-modifying therapy in two Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of essential thrombocythemia (ET) and myelofibrosis (MF). The company's scientific efforts are aimed at developing drugs that improve the management of proliferative diseases of the bone marrow, including acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis, and essential thrombocythemia.
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Hugh Rienhoff
Hugh Rienhoff

Hugh Rienhoff

Dr. Rienhoff is a physician, entrepreneur and founder of several biotech and presently serves as CEO of Imago BioSciences. Dr. Rienhoff was the founder and CEO of FerroKin Biosciences, a development stage company that was acquired by Shire in for $325 million in 2012. He has more than 20 years experience as both a venture investor and entrepreneur in the life science sector. He was a partner at New Enterprise Associates and later, a director of Abingworth Management Ltd., running their US operation. Dr. Rienhoff is an Adjunct Scientist at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. He received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his B.A. from Williams College.

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Michael Arenberg

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Director, Analytical Chemistry

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Hugh Rienhoff

CEO

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