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Walking Fish launches to pioneer B cell therapies

Emerging Company Profile: Five Prime alums led by Rusty Williams launch Walking Fish with $50M to bring new cell therapy modality to clinic

September 13, 2021 11:31 PM UTC

Walking Fish emerged from stealth to join the ranks of new companies taking on cell therapy development, but it’s setting out to create an entirely new therapeutic modality in B cell therapies. 

Nearly every major class of immune cells, including T cells, NK cells and macrophages, is being deployed as a therapeutic modality, but B cells have remained relatively unexplored in the clinic, in part because they’re challenging to engineer. ...