The protein drug developer has now secured more than $195m in total, its earlier backers including GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Schrödinger.

Nimbus Therapeutics, the US-based small molecule drug developer backed by life sciences software provider Schrödinger and pharmaceutical firms Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly, completed a $60m financing round yesterday.

Investment management firm RA Capital Management and investment partnership BVF Partners provided the capital, which took the company’s total funding to more than $195m.

Founded in 2009, Nimbus has built a drug discovery platform that is used to create small molecule compounds designed to target proteins that drive pathology in certain…

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