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July 21, 2020
Cerevance Expands Series B Financing to $65 Million
Cerevance, a private drug discovery and development company focused on brain diseases, has expanded its Series B financing round, adding $20 million to the $45 million that it announced in April.
April 14, 2020
Cerevance Closes $45 Million Series B Financing
Cerevance has closed a Series B financing, bringing in $45 million from new investors including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Bill Gates and Foresite Capital, as well as all of the company’s previous investors...
January 7, 2020
Cerevance Appoints Clinical Development Veteran Dr. Aoife Brennan to Board of Directors
Dr. Brennan is currently president and chief executive officer of Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYBX), a clinical stage biotechnology company applying synthetic biology to beneficial microbes to develop novel, living medicines.
December 17, 2019
Cerevance Enters Research Collaboration with Takeda to Advance New Treatments for Gastrointestinal Disorders
Cerevance has formed a multi-year research alliance with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) to identify novel target proteins expressed in the central nervous system and to develop new therapies against them for certain GI disorders.
News Archive
June 18, 2024
Cerevance Presents at The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2024
Cerevance to deliver a poster presentation at the upcoming Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2024, taking place in Vienna, Austria, from June 25 – 29, 2024.
Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the ataxia-telangiectasia mutated gene, leading to progressive neurological issues. Using Cerevance’s NETSseq platform, RNA from purified cerebellar cell types of A-T and control donors was analyzed and subsequently revealed significant astrocyte gene expression changes related to inflammation and immune response.
October 2, 2023
Cerevance to Present at the 36th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress
September 5, 2023
Cerevance to Present During the 6th Annual LSX World Congress USA
August 31, 2023
22nd Society of Chemical Industry / Royal Society of Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
Events Archive
December 1, 2020
First-Time Disclosure of CVN424, a Potent and Selective GPR6 Inverse Agonist for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Discovery, Pharmacological Validation, and Identification of a Clinical Candidate
February 26, 2024
Differential Contribution of THIK‑1 K+ Channels and P2X7 Receptors to ATP‑Mediated Neuroinflammation by Human Microglia
November 21, 2022