
Scoop: Bob Nelsen is building a Really Big Neuroscience Company
Over the last year, ARCH managing director Bob Nelsen has been quietly raising hundreds of millions of dollars to launch a massive neuroscience-focused biotech.
The company has been filing documents out of ARCH’s San Francisco office since at least May of 2020. Fittingly for Nelsen — the venture capitalist who initially christened the CAR-T company Juno “Fuck Cancer” and the cell therapy behemoth Sana “Fuck Disease” — the biotech is operating under a codename: RBNC Therapeutics. It stands, a source said, for Really Big Neuroscience Company.
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