Akrevia Therapeutics Raises $30M in Series A Financing

Akrevia TherapeuticsAkrevia Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biopharmaceutical company focused on developing tumor-targeted immuno-oncology therapeutics, closed a $30m Series A financing.

The round was led by F-Prime Capital Partners and Atlas Venture.

The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of its pipeline and proprietary Aklusion® platform.

Led by Tim Clackson, Ph.D., President and Head of R&D, and Nessan Bermingham, Ph.D., Executive Chairman, Akrevia Therapeutics focuses on developing highly-potent, targeted immuno-oncology therapeutics. The company’s proprietary Aklusion platform technology allows biologics to be specifically activated in the tumor microenvironment, and with precisely tailored properties, expanding the universe of immune-activating proteins that can be safely delivered. Akrevia is applying its technology to build a broad pipeline of engineered antibodies, cytokines and chemokines as potential new options for patients living with cancer.

Additional leadership includes:

  • Ronan O’Hagan, Ph.D., who formerly co-led the oncology discovery program at Merck, as SVP of Discovery, and
  • Margaret Karow, Ph.D., formerly of Amgen and Regeneron, as SVP of Preclinical Development.

FinSMEs

27/09/2018

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