Cullinan To Search For Oncology’s Diamonds In The Rough

With a business model based on portfolio management, the new company backed by MPM Capital plans to de-risk novel cancer therapies for out-licensing upon proof-of-concept or other value-creating inflection points.

Owen Hughes, CEO of Cullinan Oncology, and Patrick Bauerle, chief scientific officer of Cullinan
Cullinan CEO Owen Hughes, CSO Biologics Patrick Bauerle • Source: Source: Cullinan Oncology LLC

Privately held Cullinan Oncology LLC is launching with a $150m Series A financing, using a model of taking stand-alone cancer projects that other companies might turn down as too risky through Phase II proof-of-concept, and then – hopefully – monetizing them.

Backed by MPM Capital and F2 Ventures, Cullinan derives from the former’s UBS Oncology Impact Fund (IOF) as well as...

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