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$97 Million Series A Financing to Accelerate Development of Batten Disease and Huntington Disease Pipelines

Latus Bio has raised $97 million (approximately 140.6 billion won) to develop a gene therapy for Huntington disease. The funds will be used to develop the Batten disease treatment LTS-101, which is scheduled to enter clinical trials in the third quarter, and the Huntington disease treatment LTS-201. The company plans to submit an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin clinical trials of LTS-201 by the end of this year.

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