Venture capitalist Luke Evnin has financed several successful biotechnology startups that develop treatments for cancer. Now he is encouraging drugmakers to tackle another disease: a rare autoimmune condition that he has himself. Through the Scleroderma Research Foundation, a nonprofit that funds scleroderma research, Evnin has launched a new clinical trial platform, called Conquest, designed to accelerate drug development for the disease. Scleroderma often causes tightening and thickening of skin, and can affect the heart,...

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Persons: Luke Evnin, drugmakers, Evnin Organizations: Scleroderma Research Foundation