Details

Last Funding Type

Series B

Last Funding Money Raised

Fr20M

Industries

Biopharma,Biotechnology,Health Care,Therapeutics

Founded date

Jan 1, 2014

Number Of Employee

11 - 50

Operating Status

Active

Cellestia is a clinical stage R&D company developing innovative first-in-class therapies to control and modulate pathogenic gene expression in multiple disease areas by selective inhibition of transcription factors in the cell nucleus. The lead compound CB-103 has advanced to Phase 2 successfully treating patients with multi-drug resistant cancers.
Further, Cellestia is advancing a rich R&D pipeline of novel transcription factor inhibitors, in oncology, auto-immune and inflammatory disorders, having achieved animal in-vivo proof of concept for several new targets. Cellestia was founded in 2014 as a spin-off from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.