Article: $37M Addition Brings Archemix Series A Financing To $51.75M.

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Archemix Corp. completed a Series A round that began more than a year ago, raising an additional $37 million to continue developing its aptamer therapeutics.

The company, founded in May 2001 with $8.25 million, extended its round in December with an additional $6.5 million, before continuing with the latest addition to raise a total of $51.75 million.

The money will be used, said Martin Stanton, Archemix president and a company founder, "most simply, to develop the aptamer therapeutics."

"We will develop drugs for ourselves, as well as develop partnerships," Stanton told BioWorld Today just before leaving to attend a ...

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