EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gritstone Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRTS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of cancer and infectious disease immunotherapies, today announced that it is advancing development of a second generation vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, with potential for both prolonged protection and potency against Spike mutants. Gritstone and the National Institute of Allergy and I

SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, and Other New Investors Provide Growth Capital to Fuel Pioneering Platform from Flagship Labs CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tessera Therapeutics, an early-stage life sciences company founded by Flagship Pioneering, announced today that it has raised over $230M in Series B financing. The round was co-led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Altitude Life

BioSpace is proud to present its NextGen Bio “Class of 2021,” a list of up-and-coming life sciences companies in North America that recently launched. To come up with this list, BioSpace looked at companies that recently launched over the past few years with a Series A funding. They were then weighted by several different categories and ranked in a cumulative fashion, based on the points awarded for each category. These categories were: finance, collaborations, pipeline, grow