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Scenic Drives Towards Clinic With Cash Injection

Series A Raises €28m

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The Amsterdam-based group will use proceeds from the financing to progress its pipeline of genetic modifiers in cancer and rare diseases.

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Oscar Izeboud • Source: Scenic Biotech

Some 18 months after bagging a big pharma partner in Roche Holding AG, Dutch genetic modifier specialist Scenic Biotech has closed a series A financing of €28m to help accelerate its transition into a development-stage company.

Scenic, founded in 2017 as a spin-out of the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oxford University, has been developing Cell-Seq, a...

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