Weekly Highlights — May 4 to 8, 2026
May 8, 2026
A focused selection of the signals that matter in biotech, medtech and healthtech: financings, deals, clinical data and strategic moves of the week.
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(United States/Biotech/Microbiome & IO) - Kanvas Biosciences closes a $48M Series A co‑led by DCVC and Lions Capital, followed by the Gates Foundation, ATHOS KG, Germin8, Ki Tua Fund and Pangaea Ventures. This round brings total funding to $78M and will be used to initiate clinical trials of KAN‑001, an LBP (live biotherapeutic product) intended to convert cancer patients refractory to PD‑1 inhibitors into responders, and to industrialize its spatial microbiome‑mapping platform for des...
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