Flagship’s Latest Company To Search Somatic Genome To Find New Drugs

Quotient Therapeutics is the fifth new start-up unveiled by Flagship this year, and will be co-located in the US and UK to tap into leading academic genomic expertise.

Kendall Square, Cambridge
Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, home to Flagship Pioneering and scores of biopharma companies.

Flagship Pioneering has unveiled its latest new biotech company, called Quotient, with an ambitious goal of tapping into new insights in somatic genomics, and the trillions of DNA changes each person experiences in the their lifetime.

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