Gritstone Grabs $92.7m To Test Personalized Vaccines In Humans
Executive Summary
Gritstone closed a Series B venture capital financing to advance its immunotherapy based on cancer patients' own neoantigens into clinical testing and to explore a new shared antigen platform.
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