Nilo launches with $101M for autoimmune drugs

Nilo Therapeutics' Series A round was led by The Column Group, DCVC Bio, and Lux Capital. The preclinical startup is developing drugs targeting neural circuits that control systemic inflammation.

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Top Story Startup Nilo Launches With $101M for Autoimmune Drugs That Target 'Brain-Body Circuits' Nilo Therapeutics' Series A round was led by The Column Group, DCVC Bio, and Lux Capital. The preclinical startup is developing drugs targeting neural circuits that control systemic inflammation. Sponsored The Future of AI in Healthcare Depends on Clinical Data Quality Assessment Presented by Clinical Architecture Clinical Architecture Founder and CEO Charlie Harp shares with us how a data assessment framework he developed, the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework, functions as a healthcare data quality taxonomy to address these issues.  See the full story

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