
Updated: New Apple Tree biotech emerges with antibodies that might pair with Amgen, Mirati's KRAS drugs
Apple Tree Partners is out Monday with a new biotech from the labs of NYU Langone Health that aims to tackle drug resistance in cancer.
Aethon Therapeutics will get $25 million from the VC firm, and another $5 million from New York University and other investors, the New York-based biotech said Monday.
The fledgling startup is working off a so-called HapImmune immunotherapy platform from the labs of Shohei Koide and Benjamin Neel at NYU’s Perlmutter Cancer Center. The two researchers began pondering the idea about three and a half years ago, Neel told Endpoints News, and they came to Apple Tree’s head of oncology Raj Chopra about a year ago to form the company.
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