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Galvanize Therapeutics raises $100M to use pulsed electric field therapy for cancer, heart disease - Silicon Valley Business Journal

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Power to the people: How a company in the emerging pulsed electric field space is turning $100M to launch approved products and pursue cancer and drug delivery as well

Three related companies are coming together as one to develop pulsed electric field therapies — basically using energy to make cells do what doctors want them to do — to tackle a wide range of diseases, including cancer, thanks to $100 million from a set of well-known investors.

Pulse electric field, or PEF, essentially involves delivering adjustable levels of energy from a box through needles, electrodes or catheters. It has been used as a way to inactivate pathogens in food, but in the past few years it also has been pursued as a way to treat diseases.Galvanize and its predecessors already have a handful of product approvals.

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