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Oncology

Triumvira raises funds for improved T-cell therapies

by Michael McCoy
August 28, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 33

 

Triumvira Immunologics has completed a $55 million series A funding round led by Northpond Ventures and Leaps by Bayer, a Bayer investment arm. The Austin, Texas–based firm was founded in 2015 to create immuno-oncology therapies by engineering patients’ T cells with its T-cell antigen coupler (TAC), a multidomain molecule that guides T cells selectively to tumor cells. Triumvira says TAC modification yields better T cells than those created with current engineering approaches, which typically are not effective against solid tumors.

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