Startups

The San Diego-based startup, specializing in allogeneic engineered Treg and CAR-Treg cell therapies, plans to be in Phase I clinical trials in multiple indications in 2024.
Disco Pharmaceuticals is taking to the biotech dance floor with seed funding from major players and pipeline programs in small cell lung cancer and colorectal cancer.
The Massachusetts–based startup will use the Series A funds to advance its pipeline of oral GPR17, CSF1R and TYK2 candidates.
The Interface Biosciences co-founder said forging the relationships needed to launch a startup can be a challenge for members of underrepresented groups, making confidence and adaptability key.
Rapport Therapeutics tops this year’s list with $250 million in Series A and B financing in just six months.
Greg Slabodkin, Heather McKenzie and Tyler Patchen discuss BioSpace’s tenth annual NextGen list of the hottest new life sciences companies.
Five years ago, Kyowa Kirin set out to expand its North America operations, adding new employees and capabilities at a rapid pace. The Human Resources team ensures employee input is central to managing that growth and nurturing a culture to support it
Quotient Therapeutics, co-located in Cambridge, Mass. and Cambridge, U.K., will receive $50 million over two years from Flagship to study somatic genomics with an eye to finding new targets for gene therapies.
The new company, Mural Oncology, will continue registrational studies of its IL-2 cytokine in melanoma and ovarian cancer utilizing a $275 million cash runway expected to take them to the end of 2025.
The UK-based nanomedicine biotech, previously known as SomaServe, has closed its Series A with some significant biopharma names attached.
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