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Amazon’s Alexa Fund & UI-Investissement Join Investment Round in Sleep Diagnostics Leader Sunrise

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Sunrise, a pioneer in home sleep diagnostics, has welcomed an additional aggregate investment of $6 million from the Alexa Fund and French healthcare investor UI-Investissement (Majycc Innovation Santé), for a total of $24 million raised this year.

Key Points: 
  • Sunrise, a pioneer in home sleep diagnostics, has welcomed an additional aggregate investment of $6 million from the Alexa Fund and French healthcare investor UI-Investissement (Majycc Innovation Santé), for a total of $24 million raised this year.
  • This new funding enables Sunrise to further expand its reach, making quality sleep diagnostics more accessible and personalized than ever.
  • Joining forces with the Alexa Fund and UI-Investissement, the company is setting a new standard for sleep health.
  • As CEO Laurent Martinot puts it: "This funding round is a vote of confidence, not just in Sunrise, but in the universal need for better sleep health solutions."

Theratechnologies Announces Publication in Frontiers in Oncology Journal Highlighting SORT1+ Technology™ for Targeting SORT1-Mediated Vasculogenic Mimicry

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Friday, October 22, 2021

The formation of microvascular channels by deregulated cancer cells leads to aggressive, metastatic and resistant cancer cells and is known as vasculogenic mimicry.

Key Points: 
  • The formation of microvascular channels by deregulated cancer cells leads to aggressive, metastatic and resistant cancer cells and is known as vasculogenic mimicry.
  • VM is believed to be associated with tumor growth, resistance and poor prognosis in many types of aggressive cancers including ovarian and TNBC.
  • Theratechnologies is currently developing a platform of new proprietary peptides for cancer drug development targeting SORT1 receptors called SORT1+ TechnologyTM.
  • TH1902 is currently Theratechnologies lead investigational PDC candidate for the treatment of cancer derived from its SORT1+ Technology.

Theratechnologies Announces Publication of TH1902 Preclinical Data in Peer-Reviewed Journal, Cancer Science

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Friday, August 13, 2021

The article is titled TH1902, a new docetaxel-peptide conjugate for the treatment of sortilin-positive triple-negative breast cancer.

Key Points: 
  • The article is titled TH1902, a new docetaxel-peptide conjugate for the treatment of sortilin-positive triple-negative breast cancer.
  • Theratechnologies is currently developing a platform of new proprietary peptides for cancer drug development targeting SORT1 receptors called SORT1+ TechnologyTM.
  • It is highly expressed in cancer cells compared to healthy tissue making it an attractive target for cancer drug development.
  • TH1902 is currently Theratechnologies lead investigational PDC candidate for the treatment of cancer derived from its SORT1+ Technology.