The financing round is complemented by a €2.9 million grant from the French state innovation fund
- Fonds Unique Interministériel (FUI) – previously received by PEP-Therapy, Institut Curie and Gustave
Roussy to develop PEP-010 up to the end of Phase Ia/b clinical trials.
PEP-Therapy will use the funds to progress the clinical development of PEP-010, PEP Therapy’s lead Cell Penetrating & Interfering Peptide (CP&IP), for the treatment of advanced solid tumors. With this Series A funding, PEP-Therapy expects to generate promising Phase Ia/b clinical data in two indications where patients have a poor prognosis and limited therapeutic alternatives: triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and the platinum resistant ovarian cancer (OC).
Antoine Prestat, CEO and co-founder of PEP-Therapy said: “We are pleased to have raised these
new funds from a syndicate of high-quality and international investors, as well as from our historic
shareholders, who all share our ambition, commitment, and vision for PEP Therapy’s development.
We are preparing for the first-in-human trials with PEP-010 and look forward to generating the clinical
results that we hope will confirm the very promising results seen in preclinical studies.”
Michele Marzola, Life Sciences Lead Investor at IAG, said: “The investment in PEP-Therapy fulfils our objective of supporting innovative companies that will make a difference in the clinic as well as have an impact on society. We have been impressed by the excellent preclinical data that we have seen, and we expect the Company to demonstrate that PEP-010 can address unmet medical needs in difficult to treat ovarian cancer and triple negative breast cancer in the upcoming clinical studies.”
Philippe Tramoy, Partner at Quadrivium 1 Seed Fund – Seventure Partners, said “We look forward to
working alongside the company’s new investors to support PEP-Therapy in leveraging its CP&IP
platform to generate a pipeline of best-in-class peptides, which promises to improve the treatment
of aggressive cancers.”
PEP-010 is the first of a new class of therapeutic peptides based on PEP-Therapy’s innovative CP&IP
technology. These innovative molecules penetrate cells and specifically block relevant intracellular
protein-protein interactions, leading to the inhibition of key pathological mechanisms, without
altering physiological mechanisms.
PEP-Therapy and Institut Curie, France’s leading cancer center, have recently been granted
approval from the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) to start firstin-
human clinical trial of PEP-010.