Biotech / PharmaCharlottesville

Slate Bio

Biotech / Pharma , VA

Slate Bio is a privately held pre-clinical stage biotechnology company spun out of the University of Virginia, headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. The company is developing bifunctional cytokines for tissue-targeting regulatory T cell (Treg) therapies. It launched with seed financing in 2021 to advance next-generation IL-2-based therapies.

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About DMV

The DMV is built around a single fact: it's the seat of the federal government, and the intelligence and defense agencies headquartered there are the region's actual economic anchor, not a side industry. Georgetown, George Mason, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins up in Baltimore all feed a workforce that skews toward cleared, government-adjacent technical work most other regions don't have.

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Total firms 387

VC / investors 71

Companies 290

Universities 26

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