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Flagship, which has stakes in several other biotech companies including Moderna, will invest $50 million in the Pfizer partnership. Its drug discovery initiative, called Pioneering Medicines, will lead the research for new drug molecules.

Life sciences–focused venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering unveiled its newest start-up Wednesday: the Cambridge, Mass.–based Empress Therapeutics, which aims to speed up the identification and development of small molecule drugs.

In a busy 24 hours of launches, Flagship Pioneering announced Apriori Bio, which utilizes artificial intelligence to predict virus activity and variant formation, including in COVID-19. 

The combined company will operate as Syros Pharmaceuticals and continue to advance Syros’ ongoing clinical programs.