Details

Last Funding Type

Series B

Last Funding Money Raised

$300M

Industries

Biotechnology,Pharmaceutical

Founded date

Jan 1, 2017

Number Of Employee

11 - 50

Operating Status

Active

Cardurion is a Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing new therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. In July, 2017, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Cardurion Pharmaceuticals announced the creation of a new preclinical partnership to develop novel, next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. The partnership with Cardurion follows Takeda’s strategy to leverage external innovation by placing selected assets and outstanding scientists in an entrepreneurial setting and enables the Discovery programs of Cardurion.



In April 2018, Cardurion announced the Company entered an exclusive licensing agreement with Astellas to develop and commercialize CRD-733, a PDE-9 inhibitor with the potential to improve cardiac function in heart failure patients. With recent evidence supporting that inhibition of PDE-9 has potential to restore heart-protective mechanisms that are dysfunctional in heart failure, CRD-733 has the potential to address the cell-signaling breakdown that contributes to the progression of heart failure.