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DNA Therapeutics Closes 2.2 Million EUR Series A Financing Round
Date:1/29/2009

EVRY, France, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DNA Therapeutics, an emerging biopharmaceutical company specialized in the development of innovat0ive medicines in oncology, announces the successful closing of its Series A equity investment round. The investor syndicate led by SGAM SEFTI with two of the previous seed investors, Blue Medical Investments and G1J-Ile de France, is committed to invest 2.2 million EUR based on certain milestones to be met. Since June 2008, DNA Therapeutics has raised 3 million EUR (US$4 million) through the current Series A and the previous seed financing round led by Inserm-Transfert Initiative.

The funds will enable DNA Therapeutics to advance the vectorization and the additional proofs of concept, and to achieve regulatory preclinical studies of its lead product, named Dbait. DNA Therapeutics is developing a new class of drugs fighting tumor resistance to conventional therapies. In current cancer treatment, the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy are often limited by the action of DNA repair processes on the damages caused by these therapies. The innovative aspect of siDNA (signal interfering DNA) technology developed in DNA Therapeutics is to use a short fragment of DNA, a mimetic of DNA damage, to interfere with the sensing and signaling of DNA damages in the nucleus, and ultimately, inhibit their repair during the treatment period. Thus siDNA increases the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy without adding any cytotoxic effect. The company possesses a portfolio of exclusive worldwide licenses resulting from the pioneering work of its founding scientists at the Institut Curie, the CNRS, the INSERM (French NIH) and the French National Museum of Natural History.

Prof. Jian-Sheng Sun, co-founder, Chairman and CEO commented: "We are delighted to have received this significant investment from SGAM SEFTI that is strongly committed to support Life Science innovati
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