NeoPhore raises an additional £9 6m (USD $12 2m) Series B financing extension to further progress drug discovery pipeline streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A company building a pipeline of small molecule drugs targeting novel proteins across the DNA mismatch repair (pathway) has announced a further extension to its series B financing round.
Mercer –
Ashok Gupta has been named chair of Mercer’s UK board. Selected for his extensive board and executive experience in the financial services industry, across asset management, wealth management and the pensions segments, Gupta will also chair the risk committee and the nominations committee.
An entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in the UK insurance and financial services industry, Gupta has held a number of senior executive, advisor and actuarial positions during his career.
He chaired a Pension & Lifetime Savings Association taskforce that recommended superfunds, defined benefit consolidators for which there is now an interim regulatory regime. Gupta was also deputy chair of a Bank of England working group on procyclicality by pension funds and insurance companies.