Ventus Therapeutics, which is developing therapies aimed at diseases of the innate immune system, closed a $140 million Series C financing round that will be used to drive three lead programs into the clinic during 2022.

Eleven months after launching with $60 million in hand, Ventus Therapeutics raised another $100 million to drive the company’s pipeline toward the clinic.

Swiss pharma giant Roche acquired Ireland’s Inflazome and the company’s NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors aimed at multiple inflammatory diseases.