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Nature Biotechnology’s academic spinouts of 2018

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Our annual survey highlights startups taking on gene therapy, adoptive immune cell therapy, gene editing, and drugs targeting RNA modifications and the unfolded protein response. Ken Garber, Esther Landhuis, Melanie Senior, Cormac Sheridan and Laura DeFrancesco report.

The past year witnessed eye-popping rounds for early-stage biotech investments: $24 billion in funding was ploughed into private biotech across the globe, double the total for 2017—a year that itself broke previous records. Many of the companies that benefitted from the largesse make their way into our annual survey (Table 1).

Table 1 The class of 2018: ten biotech startups, spun out of academia, that are pioneering cutting-edge approaches
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  2. San Francisco, California, USA

    Esther Landhuis

  3. Dublin, Ireland

    Cormac Sheridan

  4. London, UK

    Melanie Senior

  5. Senior Editor, Nature Biotechnology https://www.nature.com/nbt/

    Laura DeFrancesco

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