Steve Hurly, Lava CEO

La­va breaks pro­longed si­lence with an $83M Se­ries C and two I/O pro­grams set for the clin­ic

La­va de­buted in May of 2018 with $18.9 mil­lion, a plat­form built around some­thing called gam­ma delta cells and a plan, ap­par­ent­ly, of say­ing noth­ing else for the next two years. They nev­er an­nounced a pro­gram and they did not is­sue an­oth­er press re­lease for the next 20 months.

In May, though, the Dutch-Amer­i­can biotech an­nounced a part­ner­ship on can­cer bis­pecifics with J&J. And to­day, CEO Steve Hurly is ready to talk about what they’ve been work­ing on for the last two years in Utrecht and Philadel­phia – as well as the $83 mil­lion they raised from No­vo, Sanofi and oth­ers to bring that work in­to the clin­ic next year.

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