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Strategy

Pureos Bioventures invests venture capital in private innovative drug development companies, with an emphasis on the next generation of biological drugs and drug formats. We strive to impact patients’ lives by advancing innovative treatments for severe diseases.

Portfolio

Our companies are developing innovative therapeutics for severe diseases and conditions. We are backing great teams with development programs that make a true difference for patients.

Acrivon Therapeutics

Acrivon Therapeutics is a clinical stage oncology company developing novel cancer drugs paired with companion diagnostics predicting treatment response and driving patient selection. In November 2022, Acrivon went public at the NASDAQ (ACRV).

acrivon.com

Alentis Therapeutics

AlentisTherapeutics discovers and develops novel medications to treat fibrosis and cancer.

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AM Pharma

AM-Pharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing recombinant human Alkaline Phosphatase (recAP) as a potentially life-saving treatment of acute kidney injury and sepsis.

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Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech is a spin-off from the PSI / ETH Zurich developing next generation antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of different cancers.

ararisbiotech.com

Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum is a private, clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company focused on the diagnosis and precision treatment of certain neuroendocrine and other aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers.

ariceum-therapeutics.com

BaseLaunch

BaseLaunch is the Basel area-based incubator and accelerator that helps scientists and entrepreneurs to launch exceptional biotech companies in Switzerland.

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Corlieve Therapeutics

Corlieve Therapeutics is a French biotech company, developing transformational therapies for neurological diseases. The lead program is a treatment for drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy leveraging innovative gene therapy approaches. In June 2021, Corlieve was acquired by uniQure for up to € 250 million. 

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Engimmune Therapeutics

Engimmune Therapeutics is a spin-off from ETH Zurich dedicated to the development of novel T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapeutics in cancer.

engimmune.com

Eyevensys

Eyevensys is a clinical-stage ophthalmology biotech company developing non-viral gene therapies for severe eye diseases using its ocular electro-transfection platform technology.

eyevensys.com

Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing precision monoclonal antibodies against difficult targets for better therapies in different cancer indications.

hummingbirdbioscience.com

ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Therapeutics is developing novel antibody therapeutics that target butyrophilin checkpoint molecules to activate immune cells for the treatment of cancer.

imchecktherapeutics.com

Lava Therapeutics

Lava Therapeutics is developing bi- specific gamma- delta T-cell engagers for the treatment of hematological and solid cancers. In March 2021, Lava went public at the NASDAQ (LVTX).

lavatherapeutics.com

Mediar Therapeutics

Mediar is a Boston-based preclinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody therapeutics targeting fibrotic mediators and myofibroblasts to treat fibrosis.

mediartx.com

MinervaX

MinervaX is a private, clinical stage biotech company pursuing the development of a maternal vaccine for the prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes and life-threating infections caused by Group B streptococcus (GBS). 

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NovaGo Therapeutics

NovaGo Therapeutics is a Swiss start-up dedicated to the development of regenerative therapies for diseases in the eye and the central nervous system.

novagotherapeutics.com

River Renal

River Renal is a clinical-stage company developing novel therapies for orphan renal diseases.

Tridek-One

Tridek-One is a spin-off from Inserm that develops immune checkpoint agonists for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

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Vico Therapeutics

Vico Therapeutics is a Dutch biotech company developing anti-sense oligonucleotides for treating rare severe neurological disorders with high unmet medical need.

vicotx.com

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new and better medicines

Team

We are career venture capitalists, biotech founders, former pharma and biotech executives, research scientists, medical doctors, and experienced drug developers. What unites us is the passion for biotech start-ups, innovation and the quest for new and better medicines.

Dr. Dominik Escher
Managing Partner
Dr. Dominik Escher
Managing Partner

Dominik is a founding partner of Pureos and a co-founder and Executive Chairman of CDR-Life. Previously, he was a founder and CEO of ESBATech, which was acquired in 2009 by Alcon (Novartis) for USD 589 million. As a biotech entrepreneur, he raised USD 90 million for ESBATech to develop novel antibody fragments from discovery to maturity, delivering multiple clinically successful products (e.g., Brolucizumab). Since 2002 he was a Board Member of the Swiss Biotech Association, the biotech industry organization of Switzerland which he led as President from 2013 to 2022. Dominik obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich.


Dr. Klaus Breiner
Managing Partner
Dr. Klaus Breiner
Managing Partner

Klaus is a founding partner of Pureos and has been a venture capital investor since 2001, across different regions, companies stages and types. Prior to Pureos, he was senior investment advisor private equity at Bellevue Asset Management. Bio-pharmaceutical companies that Klaus has invested in include AM-Pharma, Alpex Pharma, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Glycart Biotechnology, Hummingbird Bioscience, ImCheck Therapeutics and Vaximm. Before venture capital, Klaus was a researcher at ETH Zurich and a business consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Klaus holds an MA in chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Heidelberg (ZMBH).


Dr. Martin Münchbach
Managing Partner
Dr. Martin Münchbach
Managing Partner

Martin is a founding partner of Pureos and has been a venture capital investor since 1999, investing in life science companies across all stages and types. Prior to Pureos, he was senior investment advisor private equity at Bellevue Asset Management. Martin’s most successful investments and board assignments include Radius Health, Molecular Partners, Optimer, Axovan and Glycart. Martin is currently a BoD member at Ypsomed Holding, Alentis Therapeutics, binX Health, River Renal and SatoSea Oncology. Martin obtained his PhD in protein chemistry from the ETH Zurich and his MAS in Management, Technology, and Economics from ETH Zurich.


Dr. Veronica Gambillara Fonck
Partner
Dr. Veronica Gambillara Fonck
Partner

Veronica joined the Pureos Bioventures team as a Partner in 2022. She has been a founder CEO of GlycoEra, a Zurich-based company with a glycoengineering platform for novel antibodies in autoimmune diseases, oncology and neurology. She was also a co-founder and the CEO of LimmaTech Biologics, a spin-off of GlycoVaxyn to service GSK. Before that, Veronica was in the executive team of GlycoVaxyn developing innovative vaccines for infectious diseases. She was instrumental in the acquisition of the company by GSK in 2015. Veronica is a bioengineer with a PhD in life science from the EPFL Lausanne.


Dr. Ximing Ding
Investment Manager
Dr. Ximing Ding
Investment Manager

Ximing joined the Pureos Bioventures team in 2018. Prior to Pureos, he was Post-Doc at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. Ximing is currently BoD observer at Araris Biotech, Engimmune Therapeutics and Tridek-One. Ximing obtained his PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and holds an MSc. in Biology at ETH Zurich.


Dr. Anne Grahl
Associate
Dr. Anne Grahl
Associate

Anne joined the Pureos Bioventures team in 2021. She has collected first venture capital experience as Analyst fellow at M Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Merck KGaA, in Amsterdam. Prior to that, Anne was Post-Doc at the University of Basel. Anne obtained her PhD in structural biology from the University of Basel and studied biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Kiel and the University of Jena, in Germany, and at the University of York in the UK.


Christian Altorfer
CFO
Christian Altorfer
CFO

Christian joined the Pureos Bioventures team in 2022 and has worked in the finance industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining Pureos, Christian was Deputy CRO at responsAbility Investment AG and before this COO & CRO and member of the management board at QCAM Currency Asset Management AG. Christian also held senior positions at Leonteq AG and Man Investments AG. Christian obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration at the ZHAW and is a certified international investment analyst (CIIA). He is a lecturer at the Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals AZEK.


Dr. Dragan Grabulovski
Venture Partner
Dr. Dragan Grabulovski
Venture Partner

Dragan was CSO and co-founder of Covagen AG, a Swiss biotech company focusing on bispecific antibodies and antibody alternatives. Cilag GmbH International, an affiliate of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson acquired Covagen in 2014. Since 2015 Dragan is an independent advisor in pharmaceutical biotechnology, start-up coach at ETH Zurich and Innosuisse (Swiss Innovation Agency), board member and entrepreneur. Dragan received his master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences and Doctor of Sciences from ETH Zurich.


Dr. Ulf Grawunder
Venture Partner
Dr. Ulf Grawunder
Venture Partner

Ulf is co-founder and CEO of T-CURX. He was also founder and CEO of NBE Therapeutics, a Swiss biotech company developing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for treating cancer patients. NBE was acquired by Boehringer Ingelheim for up to USD 1.4 billion in 2021. Before that, Ulf was co-founder, start-up CEO and later CSO of 4-Antibody, an antibody discovery company, which was acquired by Agenus in 2014. Ulf is Vice-president and Board member of the Swiss Biotech Association and supports several biotechs as advisor and board member. Ulf is a biochemist. He obtained his PhD in Cell Biology from the Basel Institute for Immunology and a Diploma of Technology Entrepreneurship from the University of St. Gallen.

Dr. Roberto Iacone, MD PhD
Venture Partner
Dr. Roberto Iacone, MD PhD
Venture Partner

Roberto is CEO of Alentis Therapeutics and a physician-scientist and biotech entrepreneur who has advanced several assets to early clinical development. He has strong translational medicine and strategic experience across rare diseases, fibrosis, immunology, and oncology. Prior to Alentis, Roberto was part of the leadership team which built Black Diamond Therapeutics from inception through multiple financing rounds and to a NASDAQ IPO, and Bright Peak Therapeutics. Prior to that he was heading rare diseases research at Roche. Roberto holds a PhD from TU Dresden, Germany and an MD from University of Naples Frederico II, Italy.


Dr. Lars Nieba
Venture Partner
Dr. Lars Nieba
Venture Partner

Lars brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in the development of several pharmaceutical products and innovative technologies. Lars is Chief Technology Officer at Nordic Nanovector, a biotech company developing novel radio-immunoconjugates for treating cancers. Previously, Lars was VP and Strategic Product Lead at Bayer. Before that Lars held several leadership roles at F. Hoffmann-La Roche responsible for clinical supply planning, biologics technology and technical business development biologics. Lars gained his PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, and Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Zürich; he also holds an executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Prof. Dr. Sai Reddy
Venture Partner
Prof. Dr. Sai Reddy
Venture Partner

Sai is a Professor at ETH Zurich in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering since 2012. He also serves as the Vice-Director of the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health, focusing on the development of cutting-edge technologies for pediatric patients globally.

His academic research is dedicated to the emerging field of systems, synthetic and computational immunology. Based on his research, he co-founded the biotech companies deepCDR Biologics and Engimmune Therapeutics. deepCDR was acquired by Alloy Therapeutics in December 2021 due to its bioinformatics and machine learning expertise.

Sai studied biomedical engineering at the Northwestern University, USA, and obtained his PhD from EPFL Lausanne.


Dr. Omar Khwaja, MD PhD
Advisory Board
Dr. Omar Khwaja, MD PhD
Advisory Board

Omar is currently CMO at VectivBio, and was before that CMO and Head of Research and Development at Voyager Therapeutics. Previous to that, he was the Global Head of Rare Diseases and Neuroscience Translational Medicine at Roche, practiced medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and was Chief Resident at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Khwaja received his MD and PhD in Human Molecular Genetics from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, serves as CMO for the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation and is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CDKL5 Forum.


Prof. Dr. Roger Nitsch
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Roger Nitsch
Advisory Board

Roger is co-founder, CEO and President of Neurimmune and a key opinion leader in neurodegenerative diseases. He is a pioneer in the development of therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative diseases, and inventor and developer of aducanumab in partnership with Biogen, the first disease-modifying treatment and first approved therapy in more than two decades for Alzheimer disease. Roger is also professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, a Potamkin prize winner and member of the German Academy of Sciences. Roger obtained his medical doctor from the University of Heidelberg.


Prof. Dr. Bernd Seizinger
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Bernd Seizinger
Advisory Board

Bernd was the former President & CEO of GPC Biotech. He built the company from a pre-clinical stage to a NASDAQ listed, Phase 3 clinical stage oncology company. Prior to that, Bernd was VP Oncology drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb and held senior faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Princeton University. For the last decade, he has successfully worked with several biotech companies and start-ups acting as CEO, director or chairman of the board. Bernd holds an MD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University and a PhD from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich, Germany and has published over 100 scientific papers. 


Dr. Mathieu Simon
Advisory Board
Dr. Mathieu Simon
Advisory Board

Mathieu is Chairman of Idorsia and board director at a number of public and private biotech companies. He also serves an advisor to the European Commission D.G. Research and Innovation and as Senior Strategic Advisor to Messier Maris Partners, a small international investment bank. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cellectis and, prior to that, SVP and Head of Global Pharmaceutical Operations at Pierre Fabre. He also was at Wyeth (now Pfizer) in both senior corporate and regional roles in the US and Europe. Mathieu holds a degree in internal medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, Paris VII.


Dallas Webb
Advisory Board
Dallas Webb
Advisory Board

Dallas Webb is a Portfolio Manager with BB Biotech / Bellevue Asset Management since 2006, focusing on emerging public biotech companies. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Equity Analyst at Stanford Group Company, at Sterling Financial Investment Group, and at Adams, Harkness & Hill. Dallas has an MBA from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Zoology from Louisiana State University. 


Ben Morgan
General Partner Board
Ben Morgan
General Partner Board

Ben is a partner and head of the funds group at Carey Olsen in Guernsey and has significant experience advising a variety of private and public funds. Ben qualified as an English solicitor in 1992 and practiced in the City before joining Carey Olsen in 1999. Ben became an advocate in 2003 and has been a partner in the Guernsey office since 2003. Ben is also a member of the firm's London office. He currently holds a number of directorships with other fund management companies and funds. Ben has been a Director of BB Pureos Bioventures GP (Guernsey) Limited since its inception.


Karen Haith
General Partner Board
Karen Haith
General Partner Board

Karen has over two decades of experience in the financial services industry across the areas of private equity, alternative investment administration, corporate governance, risk management, tax information exchange related issues and accounting. She currently holds a number of directorships with other fund management companies and funds, and provides consultancy and training services in her field of expertise. In 2016, Karen founded the Women’s Business Network which gives networking opportunities to senior women in business in Guernsey. Karen has been a Director of BB Pureos Bioventures GP (Guernsey) Limited since its inception.


Pascal Mahieux
General Partner Board
Pascal Mahieux
General Partner Board

Pascal is a Vice President at Northern Trust in Guernsey, where he manages client relationships over multiple jurisdictions. Prior to that, he was a senior manager of several operational teams within Northern Trust’s private equity department. He is a qualified accountant with over two decades of experience in offshore fund administration. He has been a member of audit, portfolio management and risk committees and currently holds a number of directorships with other fund management companies and funds. Pascal has been a Director of BB Pureos Bioventures GP (Guernsey) Limited since its inception.


Dr. Bruno Teta
Pureos Partners Board
Dr. Bruno Teta
Pureos Partners Board

Bruno is a Director at Pureos Partners and a co-founder and Partner at Crystal Asset Management, which invests in Swiss and European equities. Bruno began his investment career in equity sales at Credit Suisse in 1994. Prior to founding Crystal in 2011, Bruno was an analyst, Head of Sales and a member of the management board of Bank am Bellevue. Bruno obtained his PhD in Business Management from the University of Zurich and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Dr. Matthias Staehelin
Pureos Partners Board
Dr. Matthias Staehelin
Pureos Partners Board

Matthias is a Director at Pureos Partners, Partner and co-head of Life Sciences Team at the law firm Vischer AG and notary public in Basel-City and Basel-Country. Matthias is an experienced lawyer specialized in the life sciences sector, including company acquisitions and sales (M&A), financing by private equity/venture capital investors, licensing and collaboration agreements, IPOs and restructurings. He is also president of BioValley Basel and board member of the BioValley Business Angels Club (BioBAC). Matthias has studied in Halifax, Basel, Bruges and Freiburg i.B. and has a PhD in Law from the University of Basel and a Master of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges.

News

Our companies and we are trying to stay at forefront of innovation with the goal to save and improve patients’ lives. We are glad to share our progress on the way to achieving this goal.

May 2023
Engimmune Therapeutics

Engimmune Therapeutics Announces the Appointment of Dr Annalisa D’Andrea to its Board of Directors
May 2023
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience and Merck Enter Collaboration to Evaluate HMBD-001 In Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
May 2023
Ariceum Therapeutics

UCB and Ariceum Therapeutics sign a Strategic Research Collaboration to Discover New Modalities for the Treatment of Immune-related Diseases and Cancer
May 2023
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience to Present Preclinical Proof of Concept for Potentially First-In-Class Antibody Targeting Autoimmune Diseases
May 2023
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech AG Supported with CHF 2.5M Swiss Accelerator Grant from Innosuisse to Develop Antibody-Drug Conjugate Candidates
April 2023
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Reports Positive Topline Results From Phase 1 Multiple-ascending Dose Cohorts Study
April 2023
Engimmune Therapeutics

Engimmune Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Lars Nieba as Chief Executive Officer
April 2023
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Achieves the Primary Objectives of Phase I of the EVICTION-2 Trial of ICT01 in Combination with Low Dose IL-2, Data Presented at AACR 2023
April 2023
Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum Therapeutics Announces Extension of Series A Financing to EUR 47.75M to Advance its Next Generation Radiopharmaceutical Clinical Pipeline
April 2023
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech AG Acquires ARS Pharmaceutical’s Nectin-4 Antibody
April 2023
MinervaX

MinervaX Commences First Phase 1 Clinical Study of Novel GBS Vaccine in Older Adults
April 2023
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Closes $105 Million Series C Funding to Advance Transformational Medicines for Claudin-1
April 2023
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech AG Announces Strategic Investment with Samsung Ventures
April 2023
Vico Therapeutics

Vico Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of VO659 in Huntington’s Disease and Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 1 and 3 
March 2023
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Appoints Thomas Civik as Independent Chairman of the Board
March 2023
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech AG to Present Preclinical Data at American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2023
March 2023
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck To Present Data From the EVICTION-2 Study of ICT01 in Combination With IL-2 In Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors at AACR
March 2023
Mediar Therapeutics

Mediar Therapeutics Announces $105 Million Financing to Advance Portfolio of First-in-Class Fibrosis Therapies
March 2023
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Exercises Its Option to License the Clinical Trial Results from Cancer Research UK to Support Further Development of HMBD-001
March 2023


Pureos Partners Welcomes Prof. Dr. Sai Reddy to its Team as Venture Partner
February 2023
Lava Therapeutics

Lava Therapeutics Announces Initial Data from the Ongoing Phase 1/2A Clinical Trial of LAVA-1207 in Therapy Refractory mCRPC at the 2023 ASCO GU Symposium
February 2023
Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum Therapeutics Appoints Radioligand Expert, Germo Gericke, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer
January 2023
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Partners Welcomes Dr. Ulf Grawunder to its Team as Venture Partner
January 2023
Alentis Therapeutics

Positive Results from Single Ascending Dose Phase 1 Study of ALE.F02 Targeting Claudin-1
January 2023
MinervaX

MinervaX Appoints Lidia Oostvogels as Chief Medical Officer and Provides Clinical and Regulatory Update on its Novel GBS Vaccine
January 2023
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Luigi Manenti as Chief Medical Officer
January 2023
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience and Synaffix Enter License Agreement to Develop a Next Generation Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) Program
December 2022
MinervaX

MinervaX Announces 72M EUR Financing to Advance Development of Novel Vaccine against Group B Streptococcus
December 2022
Hummingbird Bioscience

Caris Life Sciences and Hummingbird Bioscience Enter Into Collaboration to Advance Clinical Development of Anti-HER3 Therapy
November 2022
Acrivon Therapeutics

Acrivon Therapeutics Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
November 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Presents Initial Patient Data from the EVICTION-2 Clinical Trial at SITC Annual Meeting
November 2022
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Announces Presentations at AASLD The Liver Meeting® 2022
November 2022
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics, Inserm and University of Strasbourg Article Published in The Journal of Hepatology Highlights Potential of Claudin-1 as a Novel Target for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
November 2022
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Partners receives FINMA License as Portfolio Manager
October 2022
Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum Therapeutics and AmbioPharm Enter Strategic Manufacturing and Supply Partnership
October 2022
Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum Therapeutics Announces Planned Retirement of CMO
October 2022
AM-Pharma

AM-Pharma Provides Business Update and Outcome of Pre-planned Interim Futility Analysis of Phase 3 REVIVAL Study
October 2022
Alentis Therapeutics

Swiss Innovation Agency to co-fund Research Collaboration to Accelerate Discovery of Biomarkers for Fibrosis
October 2022
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech Closes $24 Million Financing Round
October 2022
Vico Therapeutics

Vico Therapeutics Appoints Scott Schobel, MD as Chief Medical Officer
September 2022
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Partners Welcomes Dr. Veronica Gambillara Fonck as New Partner to its Investment Team
September 2022
Lava Therapeutics

Seagen and LAVA Therapeutics Announce Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement to Advance LAVA-1223, a Preclinical Gamma Delta Bispecific T Cell Engager for EGFR-Expressing Solid Tumors
September 2022
Tridek-One

Tridek-One Closes a €16 Million Financing Round To Develop First-in-class Immune Checkpoint Agonists
September 2022
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Announces Trial in Progress Poster Presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022
September 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Presents Positive Safety and Efficacy Data from the Completed Phase 1 Dose Escalation Cohort of ICT01 plus Pembrolizumab in the EVICTION Trial at ESMO Congress 2022
August 2022
Vico Therapeutics

Vico Therapeutics Appoints Micah Mackison as Chief Executive Officer
July 2022
Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum Therapeutics Appoints Chief Business Officer
June 2022
Acrivon Therapeutics

Akoya Biosciences to Partner with Acrivon Therapeutics for the Clinical Development of Acrivon’s Proprietary OncoSignature® Test into a Companion Diagnostic
June 2022
Acrivon Therapeutics

Acrivon Therapeutics Receives FDA Clearance for Innovative Phase 2 Trial to Treat Ovarian, Endometrial and Urothelial Cancer Patients Based on Predicted Sensitivity to ACR-368
June 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Closes Upsized EUR 96 Million (USD 103 Million) Financing to Advance Clinical Program of First-in-human Gamma-delta T Cell Activating Antibody and Accelerate Development of Disruptive Immunotherapeutic Pipeline
June 2022
Ariceum Therapeutics

Ariceum Therapeutics Launches with EUR 25M Series A to Advance Lead Asset, Satoreotide, for the Treatment of Low- and High-Grade Neuroendocrine Cancers
May 2022
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Andrea Pellacani as Chief Medical Officer
May 2022
Engimmune Therapeutics

Engimmune Therapeutics Raises CHF 15.5 Million in Seed Financing to Develop Novel T-Cell Receptor Therapeutics
April 2022
AM-Pharma

400 Patients Have Been Enrolled an AM-Pharma’s Pivotal Phase 3 Study of Ilofotase Alfa for the Treatment of Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
April 2022
Acrivon Therapeutics

Acrivon Therapeutics Announces the Appointments of Rasmus Holm-Jorgensen as Chief Financial Officer and Other Senior Executives
April 2022
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech AG Presents Preclinical Data Highlighting Anti-CD79b ADC Program and Late-Breaking Data on Nectin-4 ADC at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2022 Annual Meeting
April 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Provides Updated ICT01 and Pembrolizumab Combination Data from the Phase I/IIa EVICTION Trial at AACR Annual Meeting 2022
March 2022
Lava Therapeutics

LAVA Therapeutics Presents Initial LAVA-051 Clinical Data at the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2022
February 2022
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Publishes Preclinical Data Demonstrating Therapeutic Potential of HMBD-002 in VISTA-expressing Cancers
February 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Announces First Patients Dosed in Phase II of EVICTION Trial for ICT01
February 2022
Lava Therapeutics

LAVA Therapeutics Announces Treatment of First Patient in Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of LAVA-1207 for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
February 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

For the third year in a row, ImCheck has been awarded by the French Tech as one of the top 120 French start-ups/scale-ups and among 7 French biotech developing innovative therapies
January 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck to Present at 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
January 2022
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Starts First-in-Human Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Liver and Kidney Fibrosis
December 2021
Acrivon Therapeutics

Acrivon Therapeutics Announces its Scientific Advisory Board with Renowned Oncology Thought Leaders
December 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 1 Clinical Trial of HMBD-001 in Advanced HER3-Expressing Solid Malignancies
November 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Appoints Jan Møller Mikkelsen as Chairman of the Board
November 2021
Lava Therapeutics

LAVA Therapeutics Provides Business Update and Reports Third Quarter Financial Results
November 2021
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Provides Promising Updated Patient Response Data from the Phase I/IIa EVICTION Trial with ICT01 at SITC Meeting 2021
November 2021
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Bioventures Invests in Acrivon Therapeutics
November 2021
Araris Biotech

Araris is Expanding its Scientific Advisory Board with Dr. Jeff Sharman and Dr. Clive Stanway
November 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Announces Trials in Progress Poster Presentation at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer 2021 36th Annual Meeting
November 2021
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Bioventures Welcomes Dr. Lars Nieba to its Team as Venture Partner
November 2021
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Announces Appointments of Luca Santarelli to the Board of Directors and Rafaele Tordjman as Chairperson
October 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience to Collaborate with Merck on Clinical Trial of Anti-VISTA Antibody HMBD-002 in Combination with KEYTRUDA® (Pembrolizumab) for Treatment of Cancer
October 2021
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Publishes Comprehensive Overview of the Development Results of Its First-in-class Cancer Immunotherapeutic Targeting BTN3A to Activate Vγ9Vδ2 T Cells in Science Translational Medicine
October 2021
Lava Therapeutics

LAVA Therapeutics Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for LAVA-051 for the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
October 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience to Present Pre-Clinical Data on Novel Biomarkers for HER3-Driven Cancers
September 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Opens New Office and Research Facilities
September 2021
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Bioventures Expands the Team by the Appointment of Venture Partners
September 2021
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Presents Preliminary Patient Response Data from the Phase I/IIa EVICTION Trial with ICT01 at ESMO Congress 2021
September 2021
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech Shortlisted in Top 5 of World ADC Awards 2021 in Category “Best ADC Platform Technology“
September 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Announces US FDA Clearance of IND for First-in-Human Phase 1 Trial of HMBD-002 in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors
September 2021
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck to Present Early Patient Response Data from the EVICTION Trial at the ESMO Congress 2021
September 2021
Araris Biotech

Araris Biotech Ranks TOP11 at Swiss Startup Award 2021
September 2021
AM-Pharma

AM-Pharma and Kyowa Kirin Sign Exclusive License Agreement for Commercialization of Ilofotase Alfa in Japan
August 2021
Lava Therapeutics

LAVA Therapeutics Provides Business Update and Reports Second Quarter Results
August 2021
Eyevensys

Eyevensys Raises $12M in a Series B Plus Funding Round
July 2021
Alentis Therapeutics

Alentis Therapeutics Raises USD 67 Million in Series B Financing
July 2021
Lava Therapeutics

LAVA Therapeutics Announces Treatment of First Patient in Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of LAVA-051 for Multiple Hematological Malignancies
July 2021
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Publishes Seminal Paper in Cell Reports Elucidating How Butyrophilins Activate Vγ9Vδ2 T cell Function Against Tumor Cells
July 2021
AM-Pharma

AM-Pharma Appoints Mark Altmeyer as Chairman of its Supervisory Board
July 2021
AM-Pharma

AM-Pharma Enrolls First Patient in Japan for Ongoing Phase III SA-AKI Pivotal REVIVAL Trial
June 2021
Corlieve Therapeutics

uniQure to Acquire Corlieve Therapeutics and Advance its Gene Therapy Program to Treat Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE)
May 2021
Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience Raises US$125 Million in Series C Financing
April 2021
ImCheck Therapeutics

ImCheck Announces Initiation of U.S. Enrollment in Phase I/IIa EVICTION Trial for ICT01
April 2021
Pureos Bioventures

Pureos Bioventures Expands Fund Size to USD 205 Million
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