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Corvus Pharmaceuticals

901 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, United States

Overview

Corvus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecule and antibody agents that target the immune system to treat patients with cancer. Its programs aim to block or modify crucial immune checkpoints and reprogram T cells. The company has an oral small molecule checkpoint inhibitor advancing toward clinic, with a Phase 1B trial scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2016 and an expansion cohort to test the inhibitor alone and in combination with another checkpoint inhibitor in several cancer types. Corvus plans to use proceeds from the financing to expand its research and development programs across multiple immuno-oncology assets and to initiate a multicenter Phase 1B trial. The company completed a $75 million Series B financing. It is based in Burlingame, California.

Total raised
$75M
Funding rounds
1
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Sep 2015

Industries

  • Biopharma
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Sep 2015

    $75M

Team

  • Richard Miller

    Co-Founder, President, & CEO

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  • Khozema Shipchandler

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Peter Thompson

    Co-Founder and Director

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  • James Rosenbaum

    Senior Vice President of Research

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