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Abalos Raises €12M Series A To Develop Arenavirus-Based Cancer Therapies

 
• By Mike Ward

Tapping into the ability of arenaviruses to deliver prolonged local immune activation, rapid regression of localized and metastatic cancers, and long-term disease control, Essen, Germany-based start-up Abalos Therapeutics has raised €12m to advance its lead candidates towards clinical testing.

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Abalos Secures Series A Funds For Immuno-Virotherapy Apporach

Effective treatment of advanced tumors remains a major challenge. Even though immunotherapies have shown significant benefit for some patients, limited recruitment of immune cells into tumors exposes the specific gaps of checkpoint blockade. Researchers led by Karl and Philipp Lang, from the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Duesseldorf, respectively, identifed a specific set of arenaviruses that preferentially infect and proliferate in tumor cells in a variety of murine and human cancer models. Essen-based start-up Abalos Therapeutics has been established to translate the work of the Lang teams and is pursuing an immune-virotherapy approach to bridge that gap.

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