Affini-T Therapeutics secures funding to advance T cell therapies
Affini-T has raised $175m in an oversubscribed financing round for advancing T cell therapies for solid tumour patients with oncogenic driver mutations.
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Affini-T has raised $175m in an oversubscribed financing round for advancing T cell therapies for solid tumour patients with oncogenic driver mutations.
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Co-founded at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Phil Greenberg, M.D., Aude Chapuis, M.D., and Tom Schmitt, Ph.D., and Vida Ventures along with serial entrepreneurs Arjun Goyal, M.D., M.Phil.
Affini-T Therapeutics is developing new cell therapies for cancer that could overcome limitations of the first generation of cell therapies. The initial genomic cancer targets of the startup are mutations of KRAS and p53, both of which have proven difficult to drug.