Eye­ing an IPO, ADC Ther­a­peu­tics fu­els piv­otal can­cer tri­als with a $200M mega-round backed by As­traZeneca

Just days af­ter Gilead and its new sub­sidiary Kite won a ground­break­ing FDA ap­proval for their CAR-T ther­a­py Yescar­ta for B-cell lym­phomas, Lau­sanne, Switzer­land-based ADC Ther­a­peu­tics is rolling out a jaw-drop­ping $200 mil­lion mega-round to gam­ble — in part — on a next-gen an­ti­body-drug con­ju­gate that the back­ers feel can com­pete just fine with the per­son­al­ized cell ther­a­py.

The lat­est round brings ADC’s to­tal ven­ture take to $455 mil­lion, po­si­tion­ing them for a pair of Phase II stud­ies that po­ten­tial­ly could put them in line for an ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval — par­tic­u­lar­ly if they come close to match­ing the orig­i­nal proof-of-con­cept da­ta that was post­ed last June.

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