Learning From Human Cell Hijacking Masters: ENYO Pharma Takes Virus Tricks Into Drug Discovery

Emerging Company Profile: ENYO Pharma has been around for barely four years, but it is already advancing its lead programs into Phase II trials in hepatitis B and NASH, and anticipates many more uses for its virology-based platform that will go way beyond treating virus infections.

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ENYO Pharma's expertise is in understanding virus-host protein interactions

When you want to develop drugs to modulate cell functions, you could do worse than to seek out and learn from the masters. This is the approach taken by French firm ENYO Pharma SAS, which has just raised €40m in a series B financing led by OrbiMed to take its two lead programs into Phase II trials.

The masters in this case are viruses. ENYO Pharma was founded around a platform developed by academic virologists at the...

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