Ital­ian gene ther­a­py play­er draws new in­vestor from Chi­na for its an­swer to CAR-T re­laps­es

So you’ve been treat­ed with one of the new-age can­cer ther­a­pies. What do you do if there’s a re­lapse and the tu­mors re­turns? 

Genen­ta Sci­ence launched four years ago out of Mi­lan in part to an­swer that ques­tion, and to­day they re­ceived $14.4 mil­lion in round three fund­ing that will pro­pel their unique gene ther­a­py through Phase I/II tri­als for mul­ti­ple myelo­ma and glioblas­toma. Backed now by mon­ey from the Chi­nese firm Qianzhan In­vest­ment Man­age­ment and Fidim, the for­mer own­er of the bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Rot­tapharm, the com­pa­ny is al­so ex­plor­ing ways of de­liv­er­ing gene ther­a­py to sol­id tu­mors that have been hard­er to reach. 

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