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life’s better when it’s bold, curious, and a little chaotic | building & becoming always | in service of the future | fellow omnipotentialite and friend to @KyleHudson
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They Came to America With One Backpack Each. Now They're Reprogramming How We Fight Cancer.
Reprogram Biosciences, founded by immigrant scientists Rustam Esanov and Eziz Kuliyev, has closed its $6 million seed round to develop an mRNA-based therapy that reprograms cancerous cells into antigen-presenting cells to fight solid tumors. The company's off-the-shelf approach uses proprietary transcription factors delivered directly into tumors, backed by investors including Unshackled Ventures, 1517 Fund, and Narya Capital.
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Summary
Reprogram Biosciences, founded by immigrant scientists Rustam Esanov and Eziz Kuliyev, has closed its $6 million seed round to develop an mRNA-based therapy that reprograms cancerous cells into antigen-presenting cells to fight solid tumors. The company's off-the-shelf approach uses proprietary transcription factors delivered directly into tumors, backed by investors including Unshackled Ventures, 1517 Fund, and Narya Capital.
Tags
biotech · cancer-immunotherapy · cell-reprogramming · seed-funding · mrna · solid-tumors · startup
Key entities
Reprogram Biosciences (organization, 0.99) · Rustam Esanov (person, 0.99) · Eziz Kuliyev (person, 0.99) · Unshackled Ventures (organization, 0.97) · Manan Mehta (person, 0.9) · 1517 Fund (organization, 0.95) · Narya Capital (organization, 0.95) · GSK (organization, 0.93) · CellRecodeX (technology, 0.95) · mRNA delivery (technology, 0.92) · cell reprogramming (concept, 0.97) · antigen-presenting cells (concept, 0.93) · abscopal effect (concept, 0.88) · Turkmenistan (location, 0.95) · Moderna (organization, 0.85) · UCSD (organization, 0.88)
Classification
memo · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 5 Jun 2026