Company expects an expansion in drug development for CNS disorders over the next two to three years.

Proximagen Neuroscience has placed roughtly 35.7 million shares of ordinary stock at a price of £1.4 per share to garner £50 million, or $80.6 million. Proximagen says that it is already in negotiations on a number of drug development programs, either via license or acquisition, and the funds raised will help the company to complete an expansion over the next two to three years.ADNFCR-2184-ID-19205203-ADNFCR

The company expects to net about £49 million in cash, or $79.1 million, through this sale. It will supplement the £8 million, or $12.9 million, it reportedly has in reserve. “We intend to use the proceeds of this fundraising to build on our competency in diseases of the central nervous system by acquiring, developing, and commercializing innovative drug candidate programs in clinical stages of development.

“The fundraising and business strategy will transform Proximagen into one of the U.K.’s best capitalized biopharmaceutical companies,” he noted, with the company saying that the placement may be the largest in U.K. biotech in the past decade.


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