Look­ing for the next big break­through in CAR-T, Mike Gilman de­buts Ob­sid­i­an with $49.5M round

Biotech en­tre­pre­neur Michael Gilman is now on to his fourth start­up Suzanne Kre­it­er, Boston Globe

Over the past cou­ple of years, the pi­o­neers in the CAR-T field have made some phe­nom­e­nal leaps for­ward, and been hit with some of the most dra­mat­ic set­backs in biotech. They’ve of­fered ad­vanced stage can­cer pa­tients a sec­ond lease on life, and run in­to daunt­ing hur­dles on the out­er lim­its marked by the graves of pa­tients. And now a biotech up­start is grad­u­at­ing from a sub­stan­tial — and very qui­et — seed ef­fort in a dri­ve to the clin­ic with a new tech specif­i­cal­ly de­signed to ad­dress the biggest chal­lenges in CAR-T.

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