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Soteria Launches with $42 Million in Series A Financing

Soteria Biotherapeutics, Inc. a privately-held, immuno-oncology company focused on developing a next generation of switchable bispecific T-cell engagers to treat patients with solid tumor cancers, today announced a $42 million Series A financing led by Roche Venture Fund and 5AM Ventures with...

Journey from Aquarium-to-Bedside to Treat Genetic Epilepsies

Emerging from stealth mode with a pipeline of FDA and EMA Orphan Drug Designation candidates, Epygenix Therapeutics Inc. is poised to become the first biopharmaceutical company to commercialize epilepsy drugs discovered in zebrafish. Epygenix Therapeutics’ six lead drug candidates were identified...

Fortis Therapeutics, a UCSF Founded Startup, Closes $40 Million Series A Financing

Fortis Therapeutics, an immuno-oncology biotech developing FOR46, a novel antibody drug conjugate (ADC) against CD46, today announced the close of a $40 million Series A financing.  “PCF is pleased that the 2017 funding to UCSF for their research on CD46 has been leveraged by Fortis for a...

Immunai Acquires UCSF Startup Dropprint Genomics

Immunai, a New York and Tel Aviv-based biotech company, announced its acquisition of Dropprint Genomics, a San Francisco-based single-cell genomics software company. The Dropprint team co-founders Meena Subramaniam, PhD, and Rachel Gate, PhD, have also joined the Machine Learning and Computational...

NephroSant Announces $16 Million Series A, Led by DaVita Venture Group

NephroSant, a kidney health spin out of UC San Francisco, today announced it has closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round of $16 million.  MORE

Alessa Therapeutics Announces First Australian Patient Enrolled in Biolen-PC Study for New Prostate Cancer Therapy

Founded in 2018 and based on technology developed at the University of California San Francisco, Alessa Therapeutics is developing an innovative and proprietary localized drug delivery technology for the treatment of prostate disease. And have announced the enrollment of the first patient in the...

UCSF Technology Sings at San Francisco Opera

In a strange marriage of arts and science, The San Francisco Opera costume department teamed up with doctors from UCSF to create a mask that will allow the company's singers to safely rehearse together -- while greatly diminishing the chances of spreading COVID-19. Video

Sana Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering

Sana Biotechnology, a UCSF startup company focused on creating and delivering engineered cells as medicines, today announced the closing of its upsized initial public offering. The aggregate gross proceeds from the offering were approximately $675.6 million. All of the shares of common stock were...

Weill Neurohub Joins Forces with Genentech and Roche to Advance Neuroscience Research

UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley today announced a long-term research partnership with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, and its parent company, Roche Holding AG, to speed the development of new therapeutics for debilitating brain diseases and disorders of the central nervous system (CNS),...

‘AutoImmunoprofiler’ Builds on Success in Cancer Research to Advance Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases

UCSF Partners With Eli Lilly to Better Understand Underlying Drivers of Autoimmunity and Accelerate the Development of Better Therapies.  MORE