Forbion, a leading life sciences venture capital firm, today announces that it has co-led, together with Deep Track Capital, an oversubscribed $175 million Series B financing in Mariana Oncology, the first investment by its Forbion Ventures Fund VI. Founding investors Atlas Venture, Access Biotechnology and RA Capital Management are joined by additional new investors Nextech Invest, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company) and Eli Lilly and Company.

Mariana Oncology is a fully integrated, next-generation radiopharmaceuticals company focused on pioneering a new class of targeted peptide-based radiopharmaceuticals. The company's radiopharmaceuticals are composed of rationally designed conjugates against carefully selected biological targets to deliver alpha or beta-emitting radionuclide payloads. By engineering molecules designed to penetrate solid tumors better than antibodies and deliver optimized high radiation activity doses without the side effects associated with chemotherapy and toxin-based strategies, Mariana Oncology aims to transform the treatment of cancer.