Five Prime Founder Rusty Williams Returns With Walking Fish Therapeutics

Focusing On B-Cell Therapies

Named after a remarkable self-regenerating salamander, the new San Francisco biotech aims to unlock the potential of B-cells to be “in vivo protein factories”.

Walking Fish Therapeutics
The company's $50m Series A financing has been led by investors including Emerson Collective, Illumina and Quan Capital.

Serial biotech entrepreneur Lewis ‘Rusty’ Williams has teamed up with old colleagues to launch a new company focused on B-cell engineering, named Walking Fish Therapeutics.

The new company was unveiled on 13 September with the closing of a $50m Series A financing— led by investors...

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