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Maximizing neoantigens

How Replimune optimized its oncolytic virus platform to combine with anti-PD-1s

September 8, 2017 11:06 AM UTC

In conjunction with raising $55 million in a series B round on Friday, Replimune Group Inc. unveiled details of its Immulytic oncolytic virus platform, including next-generation constructs that underpin the company’s strategy for creating multimodal partners for checkpoint inhibitors.

President and CEO Robert Coffin said Replimune launched in 2015 to create an oncolytic virus platform that maximized the ability to provoke an immune response to tumor neoantigens so they can be combined with PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors...