RefleXion announced today that it entered into a clinical collaboration with Merck to evaluate Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) Keytruda anti-PD-1 therapy in clinical trials. Hayward, Calif.-based therapeutic oncology company RefleXion is joining forces with Merck to evaluate Keytruda’s safety and efficacy in combination with RefleXion’s biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) in multiple late-stage cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer, in […]
RefleXion Medical raises $100m for biology-guided cancer radiotherapy
Therapeutic oncology company RefleXion Medical announced today that it closed an equity financing with proceeds of $100 million. Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), a large, Canada-based pension investment manager focused on long-term investments, led the funding, according to a news release. Existing investors TPG’s The Rise Fund, KCK Group, Sofinnova Partners, Venrock, T. […]
Medtech companies raised more than $738 million in Q2
Venture capital firms invested more than $738 million during the second quarter of 2018, $1 million less than the first quarter of this year, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and CB Insights. There was a total of 61 deals during Q2, an increase from the 48 that the industry saw during Q1. […]
