Company Story
2016 - Vir Biotechnology, Inc. was founded by George Scangos, PhD, and Vicki L. Sato, PhD.
2017 - Vir Biotechnology, Inc. raised $500 million in Series A financing, one of the largest biotech funding rounds in history.
2018 - Vir Biotechnology, Inc. acquired Humabs BioMed SA, a Swiss biotech company, to expand its infectious disease pipeline.
2019 - Vir Biotechnology, Inc. went public with an initial public offering (IPO) of 12 million shares, raising $143 million.
2020 - Vir Biotechnology, Inc. received FDA clearance for its investigational new drug (IND) application for VIR-2218, a small interfering RNA (siRNA) for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV).