Flagship aims to raise $3B; Phenomic inks another pharma deal; Oncovita gets €8M for cancer vaccine

Flag­ship Pi­o­neer­ing eyes $3B fund: The Mod­er­na cre­ator and in­cu­ba­tor of more than 100 star­tups seeks to raise its eighth fund, per a Wednes­day SEC fil­ing. The move comes as the Boston firm ex­pands to the UK and Asia-Pa­cif­ic. Its last fund was a $3.4 bil­lion haul in June 2021. — Kyle LaHu­cik

Phe­nom­ic AI an­nounces sec­ond phar­ma deal: The biotech said Thurs­day that it’s work­ing with Astel­las Phar­ma to fig­ure out whether Phe­nom­ic’s an­ti­bod­ies can en­hance cell ther­a­pies when treat­ing pa­tients with sol­id tu­mors. Fi­nan­cial terms of the deal were not dis­closed. Ear­li­er this week, Boehringer In­gel­heim said it’s pay­ing Phe­nom­ic $9 mil­lion up­front, plus mile­stones worth up to $500 mil­lion, in a bid to find new tar­gets for cer­tain can­cers. — Jaimy Lee

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