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Drug Farm

69 Yuanfeng Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai, 200444, China

Overview

Drug Farm leverages proprietary platforms—IDInVivo+ (which integrates genetics and AI to identify and validate targets in living systems) and MedChem5 (used to advance first-in-class candidates)—to discover and progress drug candidates. The company is developing treatments across rare disease, cardiovascular, kidney, metabolic, autoimmune, and infectious disease indications. Its lead program, DF-003, is a first-in-class ALPK1 inhibitor that has shown clinical improvement in an ongoing Phase 1b study for ROSAH syndrome and is positioned to enter a Phase 3 trial; DF-003 has received multiple FDA designations including Fast Track and Orphan Drug. Another key program, DF-006, is an orally administered ALPK1 agonist immunomodulator that completed single and multiple ascending dose evaluations in healthy volunteers and in virologically suppressed HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients, showing encouraging anti-HBV activity. Drug Farm has entered a clinical collaboration with Xiamen Amoytop Biotech to develop DF-006 for hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma. The recent $55 million Series D first closing provides capital to advance pivotal trials, global development, regulatory activities, and R&D expansion.

Total raised
$138M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Series D
Latest activity
Jul 2026

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Biotechnology
  • Genetics
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Recent funding

  1. Series D

    Jul 2026

    $55M

  2. Series C

    May 2023

    $27M

  3. Equity

    Feb 2021

    $56M

Team

  • Henri Lichenstein

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Cong Xu

    Co-founder and COO

  • Tian Xu

    Founder

  • Zhengle (Robert) Zhao

    Associate Director

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