Biotech company Step Pharma has raised $41.3m (€35m) through the series B financing round to advance its lead cytidine triphosphate synthase 1 (CTPS1) inhibitor STP938 in the clinical development for treating T-cell malignancies.
CTPS1 is a novel target discovered at the Imagine Institute (Paris, France) in rare genetic disease patients exhibiting deficiency in this enzyme involved in CTP nucleotide production