Kanvas Biosciences Secures $48M Series A to Deliver Novel Microbiome Therapeutics to Cancer Patients
“I began my career as a physician and always dreamed of being able to develop new drugs that could help the patients I hadn’t been able to treat with existing therapies,” said Matthew Cheng, co-founder and CEO of Kanvas Biosciences. “Most physicians never get the opportunity to realize this dream, so it’s an incredible privilege to bring Kanvas’ technology to the broader LBP market and begin conducting clinical trials of our lead drug candidate, which offers a new way to improve the therapeutic efficacy and safety of immunotherapy for cancer patients.”
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