KayoThera Raises $8M in Series A Financing

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KayoThera, a Seattle, WA-based early-stage therapeutics company advancing novel cancer immunotherapies, raised $8M in Series A funding.

The round was led by Accelerator Life Science Partners (“ALSP”) with participation from BioAdvance and 7G Bioventures.

The company intends to use the funds to expand their development efforts.

Co-founded in 2019 and based on research conducted by Mark Esposito, PhD and Yibin Kang, PhD at Princeton University, KayoThera is an early-stage therapeutics company focused on the development of a new class of cancer immunotherapeutics to treat late-stage and metastatic cancers including breast, lung, pancreatic, colorectal, brain, and kidney cancers.

Dr. Kang is a Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology. Dr. Esposito is a postdoctoral research associate in the Kang lab.

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18/03/2022