On Feb. 10, 2021, Notch Therapeutics closed $85 Million Series A financing to develop pipeline of renewable stem cell-derived cancer immunotherapies.

Notch is applying its scalable Engineered Thymic Niche (ETN) technology platform to develop homogeneous and universally compatible, stem cell-derived cell therapies. To date, Notch has assembled a world-class scientific team and built a fully integrated, tightly controlled platform for generating and editing immune cells from clonal stem cells to enable development of a broad range of T cell therapeutics.

Notch has an existing partnership with Allogene Therapeutics to apply Notch’s proprietary ETN platform to develop CAR-targeted, iPSC-derived, off-the-shelf T cell or natural killer (NK) cell therapies for hematologic cancer indications.

Notch was founded in 2018 by Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto, in conjunction with Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine in Toronto.

Notch is developing a pipeline of cellular immunotherapies originating from pluripotent stem cells that are specifically engineered to address the underlying biology of complex disease systems. The company has unlocked the ability for large-quantity production of T cells and other cells from any source of stem cells to bring best-in-class cell therapies for cancer and other immune disorders to thousands of patients. The core of the Notch platform is the Engineered Thymic Niche (ETN), which enables precision control of cell fate during the differentiation and expansion of stem cells in suspension bioreactors without the need for feeder cells or serum.