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Biomea Fusion Reports First Quarter 2021 Financial Results and Business Highlights
-- Received $167 million in aggregate gross proceeds in April from initial public offering -- – Advancing lead oncology program BMF-219, a small molecule
About this update from Biomea Fusion, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"-- Received $167 million in aggregate gross proceeds in April from initial public offering -- – Advancing lead oncology program BMF-219, a small molecule irreversible menin inhibitor, toward IND filing in second half of 2021 -- -- Mick Hitchcock, Ph.D., former senior advisor to Gilead joined the Board of Directors -- REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biomea Fusion, Inc. (“Biomea”) (Nasdaq: BMEA), a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of irreversible small molecules to treat patients with genetically defined cancers, reported financial results for the first quarter 2021. “I could not be more proud of Team Fusion and what we have achieved scientifically and operationally during this past quarter,” said Thomas Butler, Biomea’s CEO and Chairman of the Board. “We continue to execute at a very high level and are on track to submit our IND application to the FDA for BMF-219 during the second half of this year. We believe that menin will become a cornerstone therapeutic target for cancer treatments, and our approach to disrupt this scaffold protein through irreversible inhibition will afford us a profound opportunity to create effective and patient-friendly therapies for some of today’s most untreatable cancers. Over just a four month period, we were able to complete a Series A financing in December 2020 and our recent IPO in April, raising a combined total of $223 million in aggregate gross proceeds. Our strong balance sheet provides us today with ample funding to fully explore the potential of BMF-219 in multiple tumor types, comprehensively build out our proprietary irreversible platform, and progress multiple early-stage small pipeline molecules into the clinic. During the same period, we also doubled the size of our team, bringing in extremely talented but also friendly and passionate people.” Business Highlights Completed initial public offering (“IPO”) in April. The Company’s common stock commenced trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “BMEA” on April 16, 2021. The IPO, at a public offering price of $17.00 per share, raised $167 million in aggregate gross proceeds, including shares sold to the underwriters pursuant to the exercise of their option to purchase additional shares in May 2021. As of April 30, 2021, there were 28,767,867 ...