The cancer therapy developer has secured $120m in a convertible note offering featuring the University of California office of the chief investment officer.
Allogene Therapeutics, a US-based oncology treatment developer backed by pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, closed $120m in convertible note financing yesterday in an offering including the University of California (UC) office of the chief investment officer.
Hedge fund sponsor Perceptive Advisors led the transaction, which also included Deerfield Management, Fidelity Management and Research, Franklin Templeton Investments, Jennison Associates, Surveyor Capital, VenBio Select Advisor and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price.
Allogene is developing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) drugs engineered from cells taken from healthy donors, meaning cancer patients will be able to be treated without the need for personalised therapies based on their own cells.
The funding will support the progress a product pipeline that includes 16 preclinical CAR T cell drug targets. Allogene also has the US rights to a CAR T cell candidate known as UCART19, which it is developing in partnership with Servier, and which…
