Article: NewCo News: Cequent's RNAi Platform Draws Novartis Investment, Option.

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Aiming to profit from the next step in RNA interference is Cequent Pharmaceuticals Corp., which last week closed a $9 million Series A financing, including an equity investment from the recently established Novartis Option Fund.

"We have $9 million in the bank [$3 million of that from Novartis], but all of the first-closing investors are committed to add another 50 percent of their original investment" when Cequent files its first investigational new drug application, said Peter Parker, president and CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Cequent. That filing will take place "hopefully, next year," he said.

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