
06 07 07 | HAYWARD,
CA
Singulex Raises
$19.1 Million to Advance Clinical Immunoassays
for Drug Development and Health Care
Singulex, Inc. announced today it has raised $19.1
million in a private financing led by OrbiMed Advisors, LLC and joined
by existing investors, Fisk Ventures, Prolog Ventures, and Advantage
Capital. The financing will be used to advance the scope and development
of the company’s commercial diagnostic solutions. Singulex’s
customizable assays and single molecule detection platform can monitor
protein biomarkers from normal to disease levels, giving the necessary
information for drug development and health care decisions. In conjunction
with the financing, Singulex announced the addition of Carl Gordon,
Ph.D., partner of OrbiMed, to the company’s Board of Directors.
“We are in an excellent position to provide
information with better clinical utility to drug developers and clinicians
with the Erenna™ Immunoassay System by using our proprietary
single molecule detection technology and disease-focused immunoassay
menus. This recent financing will enable us to continue to expand
our commercial efforts with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical
industry, our diagnostic industry expertise and our intellectual
property foothold in emerging diagnostic markets,” said Philippe
Goix, chief executive officer and president of Singulex. “We
welcome Carl’s expertise and investor leadership as we continue
to build our programs and collaborations with pharmaceutical companies
and top-tiered medical schools.”
“The importance of biomarkers for both drug
development and disease diagnosis continues to rise,” said
Carl Gordon. “We believe that Singulex's ultrasensitive immunoassay
technology will be instrumental in moving the biomarker field forward.”
Singulex’s Erenna™ Immunoassay System
combines proprietary direct single molecule detection technology
with customized clinical assays that are capable of quantitatively
detecting therapeutically significant biomarkers at sub-picogram
concentration levels. Erenna™ has been shown to detect, at
previously undetectable limits, normal cellular levels of cardiac
troponin I, cTnI, a protein biomarker critical to assessing cardiac
tissue damage following a heart attack. By establishing a normal
concentration baseline, cTnI’s clinical utility can be expanded
from a confirmatory marker to an early warning marker, thereby enabling
interventional therapeutic options.
About Singulex
Singulex develops and commercializes innovative
technology solutions that enable disease understanding and management
for life science researchers and clinicians. Utilizing proprietary
quantitative single molecule detection technology, Singulex develops
customized biomarker diagnostic systems that can detect and quantify
normal and abnormal levels of protein biomarkers in a variety of
biological samples with extreme sensitivity and accuracy. Singulex
is currently conducting several pilot studies with academic and molecular
diagnostic partners to validate the company's commercial digital
molecule detection platform, the Erenna™ Immunoassay System.
Singulex’s research and development operations are located
at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis, and the company’s
commercial operations are based in Hayward, California.
To learn more about Singulex, please visitwww.singulex.com.
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