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Bob Langer-founded cell therapy player loads up $65M to fund Roche-partnered cancer work while expanding into vaccines for infectious diseases

Amber Tong

SQZ Biotech isn’t planning to test anything against Covid-19 for now. But when the next pandemic strikes, CEO Armon Sharei wants its cell therapy platform …

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Bob Langer-found­ed cell ther­a­py play­er loads up $65M to fund Roche-part­nered can­cer work while ex­pand­ing in­to vac­cines for in­fec­tious dis­eases

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