A pair of Lyell founders look to shift the cell ther­a­py par­a­digm — and they've got $30M to get their plan off the ground

Rick Klaus­ner’s Lyell has tak­en the cell ther­a­py field by storm, re­cruit­ing an All-Star team with the goal of cre­at­ing the first CAR-Ts for sol­id tu­mors. But the com­pa­ny may have been too pro­duc­tive — too good at its job — the­o­riz­ing more po­ten­tial ther­a­pies than it could han­dle alone.

As a re­sult, some of that re­search has been spun out in­to a new biotech called Out­pace Bio, with Lyell founders and for­mer co-di­rec­tors of cell and pro­tein en­gi­neer­ing Marc La­joie and Scott Boyken, get­ting things start­ed with a $30 mil­lion Se­ries A on Wednes­day. Lyell it­self is one of the lead in­vestors in the round and is al­so team­ing up with Out­pace in a col­lab­o­ra­tion for T cell ther­a­pies against sol­id tu­mors.

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