Poseida Therapeutics Inc., a San Diego, CA-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging proprietary non-viral gene engineering technologies to create life-saving therapeutics, closed a $142m Series C financing.
The round was led by a $75m equity investment from Novartis Pharma AG, and joined by several new investors including Aisling Capital Management, Pentwater Capital Management, Perceptive Advisors as well as additional undisclosed institutional investors. Current investors Malin Corporation plc., Longitude Capital, Vivo Capital and Boxer Capital, LLC also participated in the financing.
The company plans to broadly advance its current CAR-T programs and emerging pipeline programs, including gene therapies for orphan genetic diseases.
Led by Eric Ostertag M.D., Ph.D., chief executive officer, Poseida is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a wholly-owned pipeline of autologous and allogeneic CAR-T product candidates, initially focused on the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumors, as well as gene therapies for orphan genetic diseases.
The company has assembled a suite of gene editing technologies, including the piggyBac® DNA Modification System, Cas-CLOVER™ and TAL-CLOVER™ site-specific nucleases and Footprint-Free® Gene Editing.
Poseida is currently developing the following CAR-T product candidates:
– P-BCMA-101, which is an autologous CAR-T therapy for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, currently enrolling patients for a Phase 2 registrational trial with initial dosing expected in the first half of 2019.
– P-PSMA-101, which is an autologous CAR-T product candidate targeting PSMA-specific cancer cells in castrate resistant prostate cancer, with filing of an IND anticipated in the second half of 2019.
– P-BCMA-ALLO1, which is an allogeneic, or universal donor, CAR-T product candidate, manufactured using its proprietary Cas-CLOVER™ site specific gene editing system and is being developed as a treatment for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, with an IND filing anticipated by late 2019 or early 2020.
– P-MUC1C-101, which is an autologous CAR-T product candidate in late-stage preclinical development for numerous solid tumor indications, including ovarian, breast, lung, colorectal, pancreatic and renal cancers, with filing of an IND anticipated in 2020.
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22/04/2019