Cata­ma­ran Bio sails in­to the CAR-NK wa­ters with a $42M launch round

Cata­ma­ran Bio’s found­ing mem­bers de­cid­ed to jump in­to the CAR-NK game last De­cem­ber over drinks at a trendy bar in Boston.

They were sit­ting around a ta­ble, dis­cussing an MD An­der­son study which pro­vid­ed some of the first clin­i­cal proof that nat­ur­al killer (NK) cells can be reengi­neered to at­tack tu­mors, much like CAR-T ther­a­pies. It was a “long and live­ly” dis­cus­sion, COO Mark Boshar re­calls. And by the time it was over, they had a start­ing point to launch a com­pa­ny.

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