Verve Therapeutics aims to use gene editing to address heart attacks by targeting the liver, not the heart. And it wants to make its edits inside the patient. The startup’s approach raises a lot of questions. Verve has some answers now, and it has raised $63 million to learn more.
The new financing announced Thursday was led by GV, the same investor that led the Cambridge, MA-based company’s Series A round of funding last year. With the additional cash, Verve CEO Sekar Kathiresan says Verve could reach its first human tests of a gene-editing therapy in about three years.
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