About OMEICOS

OMEICOS Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class small molecule therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including atrial fibrillation (AF), today announced that it has raised EUR 6.2 million in a Series A round. Participating in the round were Vesalius Biocapital II S.A. SICAR, acting as lead; a SMS Group Company; VC Fonds Technologie Berlin; High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF); and KfW Group. As part of the financing round, the company has

Our heart beats 60 to 100 times per minute, around 42 million times per year. Disturbances of the heart’s rhythm – so called arrhythmia- occur frequently, in particular in older people. Atrial fibrillation, the most common type of arrhythmia, typically represents with irregular palpitations, often associated with shortness of breath and anxiety attacks. Today, around 5-10 million patients in Europe suffer from atrial fibrillation and this number will further increase due to the demographic d