Fate Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has received $19.996366 million in funding from Redmile Group, LLC

Fate Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is dedicated to bringing a pipeline of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cellular immunotherapies to patients with cancer and autoimmune disorders. Its proprietary induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) product platform combines multiplexed-engineering of human iPSCs with single-cell selection to create clonal master iPSC lines. The Company’s platform is designed to overcome numerous limitations associated with the manufacture of cell therapies using patient- or donor-sourced cells. Utilizing its proprietary iPSC product platform, it is advancing off-the-shelf, multiplexed-engineered natural killer (NK) cell and T-cell product candidates which are selectively designed, incorporate novel synthetic controls of cell function. Its pipeline of iPSC-derived, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-targeted NK cell and T-cell product candidates include FT819, FT522, FT576, FT825, FT819, FT522, and others.