Google helps boost Grit­stone’s neoanti­gen R&D gam­ble to $195M as re­searchers prep for first hu­man study

Grit­stone On­col­o­gy launched one of the most promi­nent neoanti­gen R&D ef­forts in the in­dus­try with a $102 mil­lion mega-round two years ago. And now the biotech is lin­ing up its first big clin­i­cal for­ay — while lay­ing the foun­da­tion for an even­tu­al mar­ket launch — with an­oth­er mega-round that weighs in at $92.7 mil­lion.

This biotech is a prime ex­am­ple of the ven­ture com­mu­ni­ty’s will­ing­ness to go deep and long in an at­tempt to de­liv­er a lead­ing com­pa­ny in the hunt for new tech­nolo­gies to fight life-threat­en­ing dis­eases. And part of that gam­ble in­cludes con­struct­ing new man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ties that can sup­port the de­vel­op­ment of per­son­al­ized ther­a­pies — a blue­print that Grit­stone is com­mit­ted to.

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