Diakonos Oncology Announces Final Closing of Oversubscribed $11.4M Seed Financing to Advance DOC1021 into a Ph 2 Clinical Trial
“We greatly appreciate the support of these investors in sharing our passion for improving the lives of patients suffering from deadly cancers such as glioblastoma,” said Mike Wicks, Diakonos CEO. “The fact that this financing is nearly triple our initial target also shows they share our confidence in the effectiveness of our unique cancer therapy. This investment will fund operations through the final readout of key safety and efficacy data from our Phase 1 trial and will allow the company to ramp up preparations for pipeline expansion and the initiation of our Phase 2 GBM trial which is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.”
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