PlateletBio, a preclinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering an entirely new platform of allogeneic cell therapies based on platelet biology, today announced that it has raised $75.5 million in Series B financing. The round includes new investors SymBiosis, K2 HealthVentures and Oxford Finance as well as participation from existing investors Ziff Capital Partners and Qiming Venture Partners. Read more >>
PlateletBio, a private cell therapy company focused on developing a suite of allogeneic cell therapeutics based on a platform of platelet-like cells (PLCs), today announced that Derek Adams has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Read more >>
PlateletBio, a pioneering biotechnology company developing next-generation allogeneic cell therapies for treatment of human diseases, has named Steven M. Altschuler, M.D., as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Read more >>
As I biked home from PlateletBio’s new offices in Watertown, MA, last March, I was excited about all we planned to accomplish in 2020. We had recently raised more than $80 million in venture funding and non-dilutive grants, built our own lab, and had ambitious plans for 2020. Read more >>
A donor-independent, on-demand emergency source of platelets is needed to serve as a medical countermeasure (MCM) for mass casualty incidents. See how BARDA is investing in Platelet Biogenesis’s advanced manufacturing platform to develop synthetic platelet-like cells. Read more >>
Platelet BioGenesis (PBG) reports that it is working with the Canadian Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) and GE Healthcare Life Sciences to develop customized media formulations that will enable efficient differentiation of stem cells to platelet-based treatments, thereby avoiding the reliance on blood donors in the future. Read more >>
There is a chronic global shortage of platelets to treat patients who are actively bleeding due to trauma or surgery, those undergoing treatments for cancer, or those with low platelet counts due to a variety of conditions – essentially anyone who needs to prevent life-threatening bleeding. Platelet BioGenesis (PBG) is working with CCRM and GE Healthcare Life Sciences to develop customized media formulations that will enable efficient differentiation of stem cells to platelet-based therapeutics, thereby avoiding the reliance on […]
Platelet Biogenesis, Inc. (PBG), the leader in stem cell-derived, on-demand human platelets (PLTs+™) and genetically engineered platelet-based therapeutics, announced today it received an award of $2.3 million from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) – a 501(c)(3) biomedical technology consortium collaborating with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC). Read more >>
The summer slump wore off in September with over 50 Boston startups raising north of a billion dollars in venture funding, including Platelet BioGenesis. Read more >>
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has earmarked funds to aid the development of new technology that could bolster emergency preparedness by producing platelets outside the human body. If the two-year, $4.9 million agreement between HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and Platelet BioGenesis, Inc. (PBG) of Cambridge, Mass., produces the desired results, the technology would improve emergency preparedness by making additional blood products available to save lives during a radiological or nuclear emergency. Read […]