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Pharmaceutical firm Bristol Myers Squibb invested an undisclosed amount in US-based programmable cell therapy developer ArsenalBio yesterday through a collaboration deal focusing on T cell therapies to treat solid tumours. The partnership deal includes a $70m upfront payment and it comes after ArsenalBio launched in October 2019 with $85m in series A funding from investors including Westlake Village BioPartners, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Kleiner Perkins, University of California, San Francisco Foundation Investment Company, Euclidean Capital and Osage University Partners.

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Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.