©
Oxford University Images / Greg Smolonski
MiroBio, an Oxford biotech spinout focused on therapeutics for inflammatory diseases, is set to be acquired by global biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences following the completion of a deal worth approximately £332m (USD$405m).
With its journey from spinning out to exit taking three years, the MiroBio team has delivered one of the fastest exits for an Oxford spinout. Underpinning its development is over 15 years of Oxford research into a fundamental principle of immune cell signalling called Kinetic-Segregation, discovered by Professor Simon Davis from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and co-developed with Professor Richard Cornall, the Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Medicine.