Gate Bioscience, a biotechnology company developing a new class of small molecule medicines to eliminate disease-causing proteins at their source, today announced the appointment of Jeff Hatfield to its Board of Directors.

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Gate Bio emerged from stealth with a $60M series A and a small molecule platform for selective gating of protein secretion

The company last year raised a $60 million Series A round led by Versant Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz and including ARCH Venture Partners and GV.

Gate Bioscience has raised $60 million to develop a new type of pill-based medicine — which it calls a molecular gate — that can go after the spectrum of malicious proteins.