Italian Start-up CellPly Snares $2.8M Seed Investment

Mar 21, 2014

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Start-up CellPly has attracted €2 million ($2.8 million) in seed capital investment to support development of its technology for determining patient response to oncology therapeutics.

Italian Angels for Growth, Zernike Meta Ventures, and Atlas Seed made the investment into Bologna, Italy-based CellPly in order to support the firm's completion of its diagnostics platform, which is being developed to allow clinicians to assess in vitro a patient's cellular response to cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies.

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