Tech Company Financing Transactions
Aduro BioTech Funding Round
Aduro BioTech, operating out of Berkeley, received $19.3 million in funding from Morningside Group and private investors.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
4/20/2011
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$19,250,000
Round
Series B
Investors
Morningside Group (Stephanie O'Brien)
Proceeds Purpose
This new round of funding enables us to advance our lead cancer vaccine, CRS-207, into a Phase 2 clinical trial in pancreatic cancer. In addition, these funds will support initial clinical development of CRS-207 for other indications and preclinical development of therapeutic vaccines for prostate cancer and melanoma as well as prophylactic vaccines for malaria and tularemia.
Company Information
Company Status
Publicly-held
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
740 Heinz Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94710
USA
Berkeley, CA 94710
USA
Phone
Website
Email Address
Overview
Aduro Biotech is a clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company, the company's lead candidate -- an immunotherapy regimen combining our proprietary CRS-207 with GVAX Pancreas.
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Stephen Isaacs
Chief Medical Officer
Natalie Sacks
Chief Operating Officer
Gregory Schafer
Chief Operating Officer
Hans van Eenennaam
Chief Scientific Officer
Andrea van Elsas
Vice President
Anne Moon
VP - Bus. Development
Aimee Murphy
VP - Finance
Jennifer Lew
VP - General Counsel
Celeste Ferber
VP - General Counsel
Blaine Templeman
VP - Human Resources
Nancy Kaplan
VP - Operations
Quoc Le-Nguyen
VP - Operations
Aimee Murphy
VP - Operations
Justin Skoble
VP - R & D
Dirk Brockstedt
VP - Regulatory Affairs
Michele DeVries
VP - Regulatory Affairs
Sylvia Wheeler
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