Last deal

$25M

Amount

Post-IPO Debt

Stage

15.05.2024

Date

3

all rounds

$499.5M

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
Adaptimmune develops T cell therapies to treat cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, and infectious diseases.

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founded date

01.01.2008

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Post-IPO Debt

IPO status

Private

Description

Adaptimmune Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on providing novel cell therapies to patients, particularly in solid tumors. The company has developed a proprietary platform that enables it to identify cancer targets, find and genetically engineer T-cell receptors, and produce TCR therapeutic candidates for administration to patients. Its programs include MAGE-A10 T-cell therapy, NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, AFP SPEAR T-cell, MAGE-A4 SPEAR T-cell therapy and NY-ESO SPEAR T-cell for multiple cancer types. Adaptimmune uses its proprietary SPEAR T-cell receptor platform to treat solid tumors, which has the potential to transform the treatment of cancer. The company is based in the UK and the US and is actively recruiting new team members.
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Adaptimmune Limited
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People

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2
James Noble
James Noble

James Noble

James Noble has served as our full-time Chief Executive Officer since March 2014 and part-time CEO from July 2008 to March 2014 and is one of our co-founders. From July 2008 until March 2014, Mr. Noble was also part-time CEO of Immunocore. Mr. Noble has 24 years of experience in the biotech industry. He has held numerous non-executive director positions, including at CuraGen Corporation, PowderJect Pharmaceuticals plc, Oxford GlycoSciences plc, MediGene AG, and Advanced Medical Solutions plc. Mr. Noble is also Deputy Chairman of GW Pharmaceuticals plc and a non-executive director of Immunocore Limited. Mr. Noble is qualified as a chartered accountant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and spent seven years at the investment bank Kleinwort Benson Limited, where he became a director in 1990. He then joined British Biotech plc as Chief Financial Officer from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Noble was previously Chief Executive Officer of Avidex Limited, a privately held biotechnology company that was our predecessor, from 2000 to 2006. Mr. Noble holds an MA from the University of Oxford.

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Adaptimmune
Adaptimmune

organization founded

1

James Noble

Ian Laing
Ian Laing

Ian Laing

Ian Laing has served as a Non-Executive Director since December 2008 and is a founder shareholder of the Company. Having started his career in commercial property, Mr. Laing has been an active investor in life science and technology businesses for 25 years. He was previously a founder shareholder and non-executive director of Oxford Asymmetry International Plc (subsequently Evotec) from 1992 to 2000, Doctors.net.uk, Oxagen Limited, Oxford Semiconductor Limited and Phosphonics Limited. He is currently a non-executive director of several private companies including Aegate Limited, SQW Group Limited and Immunocore Limited. Mr. Laing is a Trustee of the Nuffield Medical Trust and was formerly Deputy Chairman of London Business School and a non-executive director of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. He is a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and an Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College and St. Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford. Mr. Laing holds a BA degree from the University of Oxford and an MBA from London Business School.

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1

Ian Laing

Employee Profiles
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Cintia Piccina

Cintia Piccina

Chief Commercial Officer

Raven Henin

Senior director, im commercial and corporate systems

Alison Bryant

Head of global talent acquisition

Helen Mason

Associate director, global infrastructure operations

Paul Newey

Director of it security at adaptimmune limited

Dennis Williams

TitleSr. Vice President, Late Stage Development

Rachel Schiller

Mass spectrometry scientist

Chris Branagan

It systems engineer

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