New company licenses obicetrapib from Amgen after previous companies’ setbacks in CETP class and works with FDA on a Phase III protocol. BMS buys protein-engineering specialist Forbius.

Gene-editing focused start-ups Beam Therapeutics, Gracell, Snipr Biome and Precision Biosciences raised a total of $310m in financings in February and March. For other recent venture funding deals... 

Neuroscience track at the Therapeutic Area Partnerships conferencewill feature novel candidates for Alzheimer’s, depression, traumatic brain injury, Fragile X syndrome and post-herpetic neuralgia.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Recent Financings Of Private Companies column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies in the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors.