This Month's Profile Group: Biotechs Share Endocrine Enthusiasm, features profiles of Atterocor, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, and OctreoPharm Sciences. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: Biom’Up SA, KemPharm, LIM Innovations, Reflectance Medical, and Trino Therapeutics.

Ferns have never been economically important plants, but they have been used by native healers around the globe. Trinity College spin-out Trino Therapeutics Ltd. aims to develop new treatments for inflammatory bowel disease based on compounds with an indane skeleton, a six-member ring joined to a five-member ring, from extracts of a fern of the Onychium species used in traditional Taiwanese medicine.

Brief profiles of these recently formed companies: AntiOp, Deep Brain Innovations, Eco Neurologics Inc., eFFECTOR Therapeutics, ElsaLys Biotech, Synfolia, and Trino Therapeutics.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Recent Financings Of Private Companies column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies in the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors.