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Celladon Corporation Completes $43 Million Financing to Advance MYDICAR® for the Treatment of Heart Failure
Date:2/15/2012

LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Celladon Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative treatments for cardiovascular diseases, announced today that it has completed a $43 million equity financing to advance its lead investigational product candidate MYDICAR® for the treatment of heart failure. The financing was led by new investor Pfizer Venture Investments and also included new investors Lundbeckfond Ventures, Novartis Venture Funds, H&Q Healthcare/Life Sciences Investors, and GBS Venture Partners. All previous investors participated in this round including Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, and Venrock Associates.

In conjunction with this financing, Celladon has added a new slate of directors to its board including Barbara Dalton, Ph.D., of Pfizer Venture Investments (Chair), Johan Kordel, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., of Lundbeckfond Ventures, Lauren Silverman, Ph.D., of Novartis Venture Funds, Daniel Omstead, Ph.D., of Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management, and Josh Funder, D.Phil., of GBS Venture Partners.  In addition, Andrew Senyei, M.D., of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital will continue to serve as a director.

"We are pleased to have attracted such a top tier syndicate to support advancement of MYDICAR for the benefit of advanced heart failure patients," said Krisztina Zsebo Ph.D., President and CEO of Celladon Corporation. Dr. Zsebo continued, "The positive results of the phase 2 CUPID Trial demonstrated the potential of MYDICAR to become an important treatment for patients with chronic, advanced heart failure."

Celladon Corporation plans to advance the clinical development of MYDICAR in 2012. MYDICAR was recently granted Fast Track Status by the Food and Drug Administration in December, 2011.

"MYDICAR has demonstrated clinical benefit in human clinical trials and we believe that it has the poten
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