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Artiva Biotherapeutics Appoints Michael E. Faerm as Chief Financial Officer

by on April 6, 2021

SAN DIEGO, April 6, 2021 — Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., an oncology company focused on developing and commercializing primary allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies to treat cancer, today announced the appointment of Michael E. Faerm as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Faerm brings more than 20 years of life sciences, equity research, and investment banking experience….

Artiva Biotherapeutics Raises $120 Million in Series B Financing to Advance Pipeline of Allogeneic NK Cell Therapies

by on February 26, 2021

SAN DIEGO, February 26, 2021 — Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing cell therapies based on primary allogeneic natural killer (NK) cells that have been optimized for their ability to kill tumors, today announced the closing of a $120 million Series B financing. New investor Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners led the financing. Other…

Artiva Biotherapeutics Announces Exclusive Worldwide Collaboration and License Agreement with Merck to Develop Candidate CAR-NK Cell Therapies

by on January 28, 2021

Collaboration utilizes Artiva’s proprietary off-the-shelf allogeneic NK cell and CAR technology platforms to develop up to three CAR-NK cell therapies targeting solid tumor-associated antigens Artiva to receive $30 million upfront payment and up to $612 million per program in potential future development and commercial milestones, and royalties on any future worldwide product sales Artiva to…

Artiva Biotherapeutics Announces Appointment of Dr. Fred Aslan as President and CEO

by on January 5, 2021

SAN DIEGO, January 5, 2021 — Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., an oncology company focused on developing and commercializing primary allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies to treat cancer, announced today the appointment of Fred Aslan, M.D., as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Aslan brings a twenty-year track record as an executive and investor in the…

Artiva Biotherapeutics Announces FDA Allowance of IND to Initiate Clinical Trials of AB-101 in Combination with Rituximab for the Treatment of Advanced B-cell Lymphomas

by on December 7, 2020

AB-101 is an optimized universal NK cell therapy candidate designed for clinical use with tumor-targeted therapeutics First clinical program applying Artiva’s proprietary large-scale NK-cell manufacturing process for off-the-shelf cellular therapies SAN DIEGO, December 7, 2020 — Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., an oncology company focused on developing and commercializing primary allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies to…

Artiva Biotherapeutics and Affimed Announce Platform-to-Platform R&D Collaboration for Targeted Off-the-Shelf NK Cell Therapies

by on November 5, 2020

Exclusive collaboration to assess feasibility and activity of pre-manufactured, co-vialed, cryopreserved, off-the-shelf NK cell combination therapeutics targeting EGFR and additional targets Proof of concept, preclinical assessment to establish activity and feasibility of the combination of Artiva’s allogeneic natural killer (NK) cells and Affimed’s innate cell engagers (ICE®) San Diego and Heidelberg, Germany, November 5, 2020…

Artiva Biotherapeutics Launches with $78 Million Series A Financing to Advance NK Cell Therapies to Treat Cancer

by on June 26, 2020

Funds will be used to establish clinical proof of concept for Artiva’s CAR-NK and universal NK cell therapies Artiva has exclusive access to a proprietary large-scale NK cell manufacturing platform and infrastructure First clinical study planned for later this year followed by two additional clinical programs SAN DIEGO, June 26, 2020 – Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc.,…