Crescent Biopharma Announces Partnership with Kelun-Biotech and $185M Private Placement for Next Gen Therapeutics for Solid Tumors
“We’re excited to share the tremendous progress we’ve made executing on our strategy of building a robust portfolio of next generation oncology therapeutics,” said Joshua Brumm, chief executive officer of Crescent. “CR-001, our PD-1 x VEGF bispecific antibody, has the potential to be a foundational immuno-oncology backbone and the partnership we announced with Kelun-Biotech today has enhanced our pipeline of ADCs and accelerated our efforts to deliver potentially best-in-class novel combination therapies. Crescent is now poised to have three distinct programs entering the clinic in 2026 and multiple data readouts anticipated from both monotherapy and novel combination therapy studies by the end of 2027. Additionally, the financing we announced today with leading healthcare investors strengthens our balance sheet, providing anticipated cash runway through multiple key inflection points. Our comprehensive update today underscores Crescent’s commitment to deliver on our vision of building the next leading biotech oncology company.”
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