Shinobi Therapeutics, the biotechnology company developing a new class of immune evasive iPS cell therapies, today announced that it has been awarded up to $59M in non-dilutive grant funding by the Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). The grant will be used to support the development of Shinobi's lead program, an iPS-T cell therapy targeting GPC3+ solid tumor cancers.
Researcher Tobias Deuse, MD, is the UCSF inventor. Congratulations Dr. Tobias Deuse!