Private Company Edition: The pre-J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference financing news deluge during the first week of 2021 included several significant venture capital deals, including a $226m series B round for Affinivax, Ikena’s $120m series B round and an $88m series A round for Aro.

Deal news from Bayer, Nuvisan, Inamed, BioMotiv, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Collegium, Assertio, Merck & Co., KalVista, Atreca, Coda, Attenua, Aimmune, Xencor, EyePoint, Equinox, Allergan, Nestle, Zealand, Valeritas…

Research and early development head Rupert Vessey, who had a similar role at Celgene, told Scrip that integration of the company’s pipeline into Bristol is nearly complete with few overlapping programs.

A collaboration between Novo and Fauna will look at animal hibernation and genetic sequencing for hints toward novel therapies for obesity. Pfizer will use Insilico’s machine learning technology in target validation.