Canada's Genizon BioSciences has garnered $31 million Canadian in its fifth round of financing. The lead investor is BTF B.V. of Haarlem, The Netherlands, which specializes in late-stage biotech companies.
"Genizon's outstanding DNA resources and a platform that is applicable to many stages of drug development make a compelling investment case," said Jan Mellegers, CEO of BTF. "The company has impressed us with its ability to not only discover many genes in each disease, but also to assemble these into GeneMaps that lead to new drug targets and biomarkers."
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