Could Start-Up Adagio’s COVID-19 Antibody Have A Fighting Chance?

The company announced a $336m series C round, six months after it raised an $80m series B, to support development of an easily administered treatment ADG20.

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Adagio announced that it had raised a $336m series C funding round for its coronavirus therapeutics • Source: Shutterstock

Adagio Therapeutics, Inc. is pushing its way into an increasingly crowded and narrow space for COVID-19 therapeutics, with plans for rapid development of ADG20, an intramuscular monoclonal antibody designed to keep patients from progressing to severe disease.

The Waltham, MA-based Adagio said 19 April that it had completed a series C financing worth $336m, which it plans...

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