Dr. Peter Zandstra co-founds biotech company Notch Therapeutics

Dr. Peter Zandstra, Director of UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories and School of Biomedical Engineering , co-founds biotech company Notch Therapeutics with Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, which develops stem-cell derived immunotherapies with a focus on cancer treatment. As Notch’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Zandstra and the Notch team build technology that produces an unlimited supply of custom designed T cells and other cell types for treatment of various diseases. They later went on to secure $85 million in financing.