MedCity News July 21, 2024
Frank Vinluan

Lupus is the lead autoimmune indication for Artiva Biotherapeutics, which has an early-stage clinical trial underway. Artiva’s allogeneic cell therapies are based on natural killer cells.

Cell therapy first reached patients as treatments for cancer. Artiva Biotherapeutics is part of a growing group of companies working to bring cell therapy to autoimmune disease, and its IPO has raised $167 million for clinical trial plans.

Artiva priced the IPO at $12 per share, which was below the $14 to $16 per share price range the biotech set in preliminary terms last week. However, it boosted the deal size by increasing the number of shares in the offering. The 8.7 million shares it initially planned to offer would have raised $130.5 million...

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