BlackThorn Therapeutics Completes $76M Series B Funding
Summary
In connection with the financing, Brian Chee, a managing partner at Polaris Partners, Lori Hu, a managing director at Vertex Ventures HC, and Julie Sunderland, a managing director at Biomatics Capital joined BlackThorn’s board as directors. Led by Bill Martin, Ph.D., president and chief operating officer, BlackThorn Therapeutics is a clinical-stage neurobehavioral health company pioneering the next generation of artificial intelligence technologies to advance its pipeline of targeted therapeutics for treating brain disorders. BlackThorn applies its data-driven approaches to create an understanding of the core underlying pathophysiology of neurobehavioral disorders and uses these insights to generate objective neuromarkers, which support drug target identification, patient stratification and objective clinical trial endpoints. By identifying more homogenous patient subgroups who share underlying neurobiology, BlackThorn aims to direct its drug candidates to neurobiologically-defined patient populations most likely to respond. The company also announced two appointments to its executive management team: – Jane Tiller, MBChB, FRCPsych, as chief medical officer, and – Laura Hansen, Ph.D., as vice president, corporate affairs.