Who needs ven­ture back­ers? Bill Haney bags new deal cash from Cel­gene as his biotech up­start Drag­on­fly ex­plores NK cell tech

Bill Haney con­tin­ues to build Drag­on­fly Ther­a­peu­tics one deal at a time. And now he’s bank­ing more cash as he grows the com­pa­ny in­to an I/O play­er to reck­on with.

Cel­gene is hand­ing over $24 mil­lion to bag the world­wide li­cens­ing rights on a pair of hema­tol­ogy ther­a­pies, pay­ing $12 mil­lion apiece just weeks af­ter the big biotech agreed to dou­ble down on their al­liance with the Cam­bridge, MA-based start­up and ex­pand the work with 4 new tar­gets.

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