Bil­lion­aire-backed Park­er In­sti­tute tack­les the Holy Grail of can­cer R&D — with a vir­tu­al un­known

Up un­til about 6 months ago, Fred Rams­dell, the vice pres­i­dent for re­search at the Park­er In­sti­tute for Can­cer Im­munother­a­py, had nev­er heard of Tes­sa Ther­a­peu­tics. But he and some of the top can­cer re­searchers as­so­ci­at­ed with the Park­er In­sti­tute’s far flung net­work of in­ves­ti­ga­tors have been mak­ing up for lost time.

The Park­er In­sti­tute — fund­ed by tech mogul Sean Park­er — is an­nounc­ing Mon­day that it is mak­ing a leap in­to next-gen adop­tive cell ther­a­pies for can­cer, join­ing with Sin­ga­pore-based Tes­sa. Their new biotech al­ly is now en­gaged in a Phase III tri­al that hopes to open a new chap­ter in the field, look­ing to share the spot­light with the lead­ers which have dom­i­nat­ed the im­munother­a­py are­na so far. And the part­ners have some big plans for the fu­ture.

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