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Anocca To Reach Clinical-Stage With T-Cell Therapies After Series B Injection

Swedish Biotech Developing Pipeline Of TCR-T Cellular Therapies

 
• By Sten Stovall

Sweden-based Anocca AB will use a just completed $47m Series B financing to advance its industrialized cellular biology platform and pipeline of TCR-T cellular therapies into Phase I/IIa oncology clinical trials, its CEO tells Scrip. 

Anocca’s varied and wide-ranging TCR-T pipeline will now progress to clinic • Source: Alamy

Developing next-generation T-cell immunotherapies using proprietary technology and in-house manufacturing is how privately owned Anocca AB will use a $47m Series B financing that brought the Swedish biotech’s cash mound to more than $100m, its CEO and co-founder Reagan Jarvis told Scrip. 

Since its founding eight years ago, Anocca has generated a preclinical pipeline of engineered T-cell receptor therapies for use against multiple antigen classes, including targets that are shared amongst tumors, against specific

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