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resTORbio's Age-Related RTI Program Picks Up Further Funding

 
• By John Davis

Clinical studies by resTORbio into age-related immunosenescence attracts investors keen to advance a potential new class of immunotherapy agents.

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In a second round of financing this year, resTORbio, the PureTech Health PLC affiliate, has raised $40m from a group of leading institutional investors to support a Phase IIb study of its lead program, RTB101, to reduce respiratory tract infections in the elderly linked to immunosenescence, the age-related decline in immune function.

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