Fo­cus­ing on the tu­mor mi­croen­vi­ron­ment, On­coRe­sponse gar­ners $40 mil­lion for the next stage of the R&D jour­ney

On­coRe­sponse has en­tered the on-ramp for its im­muno-on­col­o­gy clin­i­cal plans. And the biotech now has a $40 mil­lion B round from a mix of main­stream and non­tra­di­tion­al in­vestors to get them over the hur­dle and in­to hu­man stud­ies.

The Seat­tle-based com­pa­ny has spent the last 3 years sort­ing through prospec­tive an­ti­bod­ies iden­ti­fied through their re­search of the “elite re­spon­ders” to check­point in­hibitors, in­ves­ti­gat­ing the an­ti­bod­ies they pro­duce in ef­fec­tive­ly re­pelling can­cer. That work has been part­nered with MD An­der­son, which has been pro­vid­ing the tis­sue sam­ples.

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