Other investors participating in the round included the VOYAGER Health-Tech fund, David Rowan, founder of Voyagers.io, and angel investors Sharaf Yamani and Sami Mikati.
Voyager gains worldwide rights to VY-HTT01 Huntington’s disease program and ex-U.S. rights to VY-FXN01 Friedreich’s ataxia program for $10 million upfront.
Four months after Voyager Therapeutics’ chief and founder Steven Paul, M.D., said he would step down to become an “executive science adviser,” the neurological disease biotech has found a new leader.
Under Voyager’s Collaboration Agreement with Sanofi Genzyme, Sanofi Genzyme had an exclusive option for ex-U.S. development and commercial rights to VY-AADC