Gritstone Grabs $92.7m To Test Personalized Vaccines In Humans

Gritstone closed a Series B venture capital financing to advance its immunotherapy based on cancer patients' own neoantigens into clinical testing and to explore a new shared antigen platform.

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Gritstone Oncology made a splash in 2015 with a $120m Series A venture capital round to fund the development of personalized neoantigen-targeting vaccines, and now the company has followed up with a $92.7m Series B round at a time of increasing interest in individualized immunotherapies.

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