Obsidian Therapeutics rakes in $160M for solid tumor cell therapy program

Ob­sid­i­an Ther­a­peu­tics an­nounced Wednes­day that it raised $160.5 mil­lion to push its tu­mor-in­fil­trat­ing lym­pho­cyte (TIL) pro­gram fur­ther in clin­i­cal tri­als.

The Se­ries C raise comes af­ter Ob­sid­i­an re­port­ed ini­tial da­ta from six pa­tients with ad­vanced melanoma who re­ceived its tu­mor-in­fil­trat­ing lym­pho­cyte cell ther­a­py. With the new $160.5 mil­lion, Ob­sid­i­an plans to push its TIL ther­a­py, OBX-115, for­ward in mul­ti­cen­ter stud­ies in both melanoma and non-small cell lung can­cer.

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