LEAH Labs (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
November 2, 2018
Vertical
Healthcare,Therapeutics
Company Info
Founding Year
2018
Market
Healthcare
Location
Rochester, MN, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

LEAH Labs is building a discovery engine for cell therapy development using virus-free gene editing technology, with dogs and cancer as a beachhead market. Dogs and humans get the same types of diseases, especially cancers, and are great models for one another. Our company is the first to bring CAR-T cell therapy to pets as both an unmet need for companion animal medicine, but also as a platform to discover and de-risk potential human assets. We operate under USDA jurisdiction, a regulatory environment prime for innovation that is orders of magnitude more cost effective to iterate within than FDA.