Except this time, he wants to find out which existing drugs can be used to treat rare diseases (without too much tweaking). UK-based start-up Healx, founded by the co-inventor of Viagra, Dr David Brown, has raised $10m in a series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. The company is developing an app that will allow users to track their blood sugar levels and monitor how much insulin they are taking in. Brown dubbed the current drug discovery process as "broken, slow and high failure".
UK-based start-up Healx, founded by the co-inventor of Viagra, Dr David Brown, has raised $10m in a series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. The company is developing an app that will allow users to track their blood sugar levels and monitor how much insulin they are taking in. Brown dubbed the current drug discovery process as "broken, slow and high failure".