Newcastle University owns 6,744,000 shares, 4.9% of E-Therapeutics, currently.

E-Therapeutics, a drug discovery and development company targeting cancer that is listed on the UK’s Alternative Investment Market, plans to raise £40m ($60m) by selling new shares at 32p each.

Newcastle University owns 6,744,000 shares, 4.9% of E-Therapeutics, currently.

Malcolm Young, a professor at Newcastle University  and chief executive of E-Therapeutics, who owns 12.1% currently, said: “We appreciate the continuing support of existing investors and are also pleased to have attracted significant new investors to the company.”

Young founded E-Therapeutics, formerly…