{"id":9642,"date":"2026-03-27T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/abivax-secures-a-record-750-million-to-advance-its-innovative-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:46:35","slug":"abivax-secures-a-record-750-million-to-advance-its-innovative-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/abivax-secures-a-record-750-million-to-advance-its-innovative-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Abivax secures a record $750 million to advance its innovative treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"645\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/abivax-450x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/abivax-450x290.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/abivax-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/abivax.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The biotech company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abivax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abivax<\/a> has raised $750 million to develop obefazimod, an oral treatment for ulcerative colitis.<br \/>\nThis molecule is the result of over 20 years of research led by Prof. Jamal Tazi at the Institut de G\u00e9n\u00e9tique mol\u00e9culaire de Montpellier (IGMM).<br \/>\nThis innovative oral treatment showed a significant clinical remission rate and a good safety profile in phase III trials, with commercialization expected as early as 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnrsinnovation.com\/actualite\/apres-sa-levee-de-fonds-historique-abivax-promet-de-changer-la-donne-dans-linflammation-chronique-de-lintestin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNRS Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record $750M funding for Abivax and its innovative treatment Obefazimod, developed from the research of Prof. Jamal Tazi at IGMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmm.cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}