Unconventional T cell biologist and genome engineer. Previously @cardiffuni @nyuniversity @nygenome 🏳️🌈
Joined September 2020
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6 May 2024
After some time in the making, I am really happy to announce @OverT_Bio’s official launch today. I am excited and humbled by the experience of building OverT with a terrific team of scientists and operators #startup #celltherapy #cancer
6 May 2024
We're thrilled to launch OverT Bio! Debuting with $16M of initial financing, we will develop safe and effective #celltherapies for solid tumor cancers.
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
Mar 23
Excited to share a big milestone for OverT Bio—we’ve formed our Clinical Advisory Board.
Grateful to partner with an incredible group of leaders as we build scalable γδ CAR-T therapies for solid tumors.
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
17 Jun 2024
Come and join the extraordinary team of ALLOX and help us accelerate the discovery of more effective therapies!
👉allox.bio/careers
Our team in #Barcelona is expanding & we're #hiring 2 talented scientists to fill these exciting new positions: a Lead Scientist & a Research Associate.
Do u want to make a real difference in the future of applied high-throughput genetics and therapeutics? #PhdChat #ScienceJobs
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
7 May 2024
🎉Congratulations to the team at @OverT_Bio and its co-founders, @MatLegut and former CRI Tech Impact Award Grantee @nevillesanjana on the company's debut! Learn more in @endpts:
6 May 2024
We're thrilled to launch OverT Bio! Debuting with $16M of initial financing, we will develop safe and effective #celltherapies for solid tumor cancers.
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
6 May 2024
Congrats to @MatLegut & the entire @OverT_Bio team! Grateful for the opportunity to translate discoveries from our lab @nygenome & @nyuniversity into therapies for cancer patients.
Thrilled to be a part of this amazing team — onward and upward! 🚀
6 May 2024
We're thrilled to launch OverT Bio! Debuting with $16M of initial financing, we will develop safe and effective #celltherapies for solid tumor cancers.
endpts.com/overt-bio-debuts-…
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6 May 2024
After some time in the making, I am really happy to announce @OverT_Bio’s official launch today. I am excited and humbled by the experience of building OverT with a terrific team of scientists and operators #startup #celltherapy #cancer
6 May 2024
We're thrilled to launch OverT Bio! Debuting with $16M of initial financing, we will develop safe and effective #celltherapies for solid tumor cancers.
endpts.com/overt-bio-debuts-…
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6 May 2024
Shout-out to my co-founder @nevillesanjana and our partners at @ArtisVentures @Wing_VC @FusionFundVC OMX, Alexandria Venture Investments, @CivilizationVC @GaingelsVC @CancerResearch and Hawktail
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6 May 2024
Last but not least, special mention to our first investors who supported us from the very start of this journey: Jim Magid, Dr. Anthony Evnin and Jeanette Cone Kimmel
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
6 May 2024
We're thrilled to launch OverT Bio! Debuting with $16M of initial financing, we will develop safe and effective #celltherapies for solid tumor cancers.
endpts.com/overt-bio-debuts-…
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
1 Dec 2023
Big news!! I can finally officially announce that a few weeks ago, ALLOX @ALLOXbio was co-founded by the brilliant André Faure @aj4re , Pablo Baeza @pbcenturion , Ben Lehner @BenLehner , and myself, who will be stepping in as CEO of the company.
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
24 Jul 2023
Great effort from the team on this study published in Cell today! Hard work pays off - well done everyone 👏🏻
Exciting science - discovering new T-cell receptors for cancer immunotherapies 🔬
#cancerimmunotherpies #cellscience #tcells
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24 Jul 2023
A really exciting article, fresh from the press @CellCellPress! T cells are indeed #crossreactive, in this case a single T cell receptor can bind and recognise distinct cancer antigens from not one, but three proteins (or more!).
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24 Jul 2023
Shoutout to @TcellResearch team for this beautiful study! Super happy to have been able to contribute a small part to this work. Hoping this discovery will bring about #tcr #celltherapy to more patients with hard to treat cancers! #immunotherapy
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
7 Jun 2023
For anyone interested in our work and our team - we would greatly appreciate extra votes in the following competition! Voting is open until the 4th July 🗳️🙏🏻🧬🧪
MolecularCloud | 2023 Distinguished Research Awards for Gene and Cell Therapy molecularcloud.org/researcha…
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
7 Jun 2023
I had some fun taking my #ScienceTwitter game to the next level with @WIRED 🐦🎮👨🔬 🙂
And several awesome CRISPR questions too!✂️🧬
6 Jun 2023
Genetics Support w/ @nevillesanjana! youtu.be/C3T_IaIGQxo
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14 Apr 2023
Grateful for being invited to participate in the new Tools of the trade series from @NatureRevCancer, highlighting our recent study on developing new #immunotherapy for cancer through genome-scale screens in #tcells
14 Apr 2023
NEW content online! Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies dlvr.it/SmTtT9
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
14 Apr 2023
NEW content online! Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies dlvr.it/SmTtT9
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8 Mar 2023
Great to see we got through the first round! Now let’s go and win the second one!
8 Mar 2023
.@nevillesanjana and colleagues from NYU and @nygenome developed a genetic screening platform to identify genes that transform immune cells into more aggressive cancer fighters. Their promising study was published in @Nature. Vote for it in #statmadness: statnews.com/feature/stat-ma…
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Mat Legut, PhD retweeted
1 Mar 2023
.@nevillesanjana and colleagues from NYU and @nygenome developed a genetic screening platform to identify genes that transform immune cells into more aggressive cancer fighters. Their promising study was published in @Nature. Vote for it in #statmadness: statnews.com/feature/stat-ma…
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1 Mar 2023
Super excited to see our research on building new immunotherapies getting picked by @statnews to represent @nyuniversity
(Also, turns out this March Madness is like an actual sports thing! Things you learn… 🤷🏻♂️)
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