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Sorrento Therapeutics

www.sorrentotherapeutics.com

 
Sorrento is an oncology company developing new treatments for cancer and associated pain. Sorrento recently announced that NantPharma acquired the rights to Cynviloq™, which completed a successful TRIBECA study. Sorrento is also developing resiniferatoxin (RTX), a non-opiate TRPV1 agonist currently in a Phase 1/2 study at the NIH to treat terminal cancer patients suffering from intractable pain. In December 2014, Sorrento and NantWorks formed a global joint venture, now called Nantibody, to focus on immunotherapies for cancer. Also in December 2014, Sorrento and Conkwest, Inc., a privately-held immuno-oncology company developing proprietary Neukoplast,® a Natural Killer (NK) cell-line based therapy, entered into ...
  • Number of Employees: 0-25
  • Annual Revenue: $0-1 Million

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Sorrento Therapeutics raised $150M on 04/11/2016
Sorrento Therapeutics raised $25M on 10/09/2019

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