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Muna Therapeutics raised $75M in 2024 targeting microglial biology in Alzheimer's disease, using iPSC-derived microglia models to identify novel drug targets that modulate brain immune function.
Muna Therapeutics focuses on microglial biology — the specialized immune cells of the brain — as the key to developing disease-modifying Alzheimer's therapies beyond amyloid targeting. The company uses induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived microglia as disease models to identify and validate novel drug targets implicated by Alzheimer's genetics (TREM2, PLCG2, BIN1, APOE). This platform enables the company to study microglial dysfunction at scale and run drug screens against human-relevant cellular models.
Umoja Biopharma raised $300M+ for its lentiviral vector CAR-T platform that delivers cancer-fighting T-cells in a single IV infusion, eliminating the need for cell extraction and manufacturing.
Umoja Biopharma is developing an in vivo CAR-T cell therapy platform that circumvents the costly and time-consuming ex vivo manufacturing process that limits current CAR-T therapies. Instead of extracting a patient's T-cells, engineering them in a lab, and reinfusing them, Umoja's approach delivers viral vectors intravenously that reprogram T-cells directly inside the patient's body. This could reduce CAR-T therapy costs from $400,000+ to a fraction of that price.
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