UK Biotech Ervaxx Launches With Focus On ‘Dark Antigens’

Start-Up Raises $17.5m In Series A

Melanoma is first target for company developing cancer vaccines and T-cell receptor immunotherapies.

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Ervaxx has been spun out of technology developed at the Francis Crick Institute

The ‘dark matter’ of the human genome is to be explored in the search for new cancer therapies by Ervaxx, a new UK biotech company.

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