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Start-ups

Anaveon raises $35 million for IL-2 drug

by Ryan Cross
March 8, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 10

 

The Swiss start-up Anaveon has raised about $35 million in its series A financing, led by the British life sciences investor Syncona and supported by the Novartis Venture Fund. The biotech is developing antibody agonists of the interleukin-2 receptor, with the goal of boosting the immune system’s ability to attack tumors in combination with other cancer therapies. Anaveon was founded in 2017 by IL-2 expert Onur Boyman, from the University of Zurich, and Andreas Katopodis, a former R&D director at Novartis.

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