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Valo Health Acquires Tara Biosystems Creating First Of Its Kind Vertically Integrated Cardiovascular Platform

Apr 05, 2022•over 3 years ago

Acquiring Company

Valo

Acquired Company

TARA Biosystems, Inc.

BostonNew YorkTherapeuticsArtificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyHealth CareHealth Care

Description

Valo Health, LLC ("Valo"), announced today the acquisition of TARA Biosystems, Inc. ("TARA"), a New York City-based cardiovascular disease biotechnology company, creating the first of its kind vertically integrated cardiovascular drug discovery and development platform. The combination of TARA's proprietary human three-dimensional tissue engineering and cardiac disease modeling capabilities with Valo's Opal Computational PlatformTM positions Valo to transform cardiovascular disease drug discovery and development.

Company Information

Company

Valo

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About

Valo Health, Inc is a technology company focused on utilizing large scale data and AI-driven computation to discover and develop therapeutics. Valo aims to fully integrate human-centric data across the entire drug development life cycle into a single unified architecture, thereby accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing drugs while simultaneously reducing costs, time, and failure rates. The company's Opal Computational PlatformTM is an end-to-end drug discovery and development platform with a unified architecture designed to transform data into valuable insights that may accelerate discoveries and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of programs, initially focused on cardiovascular metabolic renal, oncology, and neurodegenerative disease. Founded by Flagship Pioneering and headquartered in Boston, MA, Valo also has offices in Lexington, MA, and New York, NY. To learn more, visit valohealth.com.

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