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CAMBRIDGEMass., Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbinger Health, a biotechnology company pioneering new technologies to fundamentally change cancer screening and detection, announced today that it raised $140 million in Series B funding. The financing round is comprised of the Company's founder, Flagship Pioneering, alongside new global institutional investors including Pictet, Partners Investment, and Catalyst, M&G Investments' purpose-led private assets strategy, among other investors. The new funds will be used to support the completion of Harbinger's Cancer ORigin Epigenetics-Harbinger Health (CORE-HH) 10,000-participant clinical study of its novel blood-based cancer screening platform; develop its two-tier testing model; expand its data science and commercial teams and capabilities; and initiate additional clinical studies in high-risk populations.

Harbinger is developing a proprietary two-tier testing model with the goal of making cancer screening accessible on a global scale. Harbinger's product development strategy is designed to enable low-cost population testing to achieve broad affordability, improve Positive Predictive Value (PPV) to reduce the burden of false positives, and quantitative individual longitudinal monitoring to better guide clinical decision making if cancer is detected. Harbinger's platform, HarbingerHx, leverages machine learning, proprietary insights into the molecular biology of cancer's origins, and growing datasets to develop insights that maximize clinical informativeness.

"At Harbinger, our goal is to lead the way to a future where cancer screening is routine, affordable and accessible for everyone," said Stephen Hahn, M.D., CEO of Harbinger Health. "We have a unique opportunity to make cancer screening tools work better and work for more people through our biological and technical solutions. We are achieving this by combining machine learning with insights into the biology of cancer's origins and individual risk in order to provide actionable information to providers, enabling them to guide improved clinical decision making for their patients. This is where I see our greatest potential to reduce cancer mortality rates in our lifetimes."

"Since its inception, Harbinger has built a platform that integrates our ability to understand the underlying biology of cancer with the ability to aggregate large datasets to fuel product development to solve some of the greatest challenges in the cancer screening field today," said Douglas Cole, M.D., co-founder and chairman, Harbinger Health and managing partner, Flagship Pioneering. "This current financing will enable us to scale and advance a proprietary product model that optimizes for performance, accessibility, and cost and ultimately seeks to provide the right test for the right patient at the right time."

Harbinger has raised approximately $190 million in total funding since its formation in 2020. This funding round comes on the heels of multiple business and clinical milestones for Harbinger as it continues the acceleration of its two-tier, multi-cancer platform, including multiple appointments to its executive leadership team and data presentations demonstrating the performance of Harbinger's platform.

Harbinger Health is pioneering the detection of early cancer and enabling foundationally new approaches to cancer screening, diagnosis and management. The company combines advances in artificial intelligence with proprietary insights into the biology of the beginnings of cancer to identify cancer before it is visible or symptomatic with the aim of developing low-cost, multi-cancer blood tests. Harbinger envisions a future where, instead of keeping cancer from spreading, it could be kept from forming, making a cancer diagnosis a routine health problem to be addressed rather than a life-altering event to be feared with profound implications for people, healthcare systems and societies. Harbinger was founded by Flagship Pioneering after three years of foundational research in its Labs unit and launched in 2020. Learn more about Harbinger by visiting www.harbinger-health.com or following us on Twitter (@harbingerhlth) and LinkedIn.

I'm wondering. How long will anet wait until they nerf Harbinger? After everyone quits? Nobody wants to fight a build so abusively overpowered as the Curses/Death Magic/Harbinger build that so easily wins against every other build in the game. This build has a near-perfect defense against all power damage thanks to the high Weakness application, permanent Protection, and +600 Toughness from Death Magic, and the condition cleanses from Shrowded Removal and Spectral Walk when paired with Superior Rune of Anti-Toxin are off the charts. And that's just the defensive part of the build! The number of conditions harbingers apply is simply overkill. Especially considering they have access to permanent quickness allowing them to spam their skills at such a rate that you cannot get any skills off before being overloaded with conditions. This build is so broken that I'm getting farmed by brand-new WvW players while running some of the strongest builds other classes have and to be honest it's sapping the fun out of WvW and makes me want to quit (cept I won't because I enjoy the combat system too much so I'ma write a forum post instead).

I made a cele Harb for WvW roaming to see how easy it actually was, and lol, it's pretty stupid. The amount of CC you get, (shroud 5 on a 20 second cooldown lol) and the amount of sustain you have, (11k+ heal skill on a 20 second cooldown lol) as well as the ease of killing any other class by simply auto attacking in shroud is hilarious. And it easily works with so many trait lines a necro can take! You can swap some surv for even more damage or corrupts. I wish more classes had trait lines like necro, where they all just work with whatever you wanna do.

You might not have any issues fighting Harbingers with a glass cannon ranged build that can burst targets at 1500+ range but literally everyone else gets farmed. If Deadeye is actually as broken as you think then perhaps it needs to be put on the chopping block too, but this post is about Harbinger.

On a scale of wet fart to dry fart I'd say willbenders are a wet fart and more of a problem than dry fart harbingers these days. Either way these specs stink up roaming more than usual. ???️?

Willbender, catalyst, thief DE and DD and Specter, new mesmer eod, perma immobilized ranger, mechanist that doe snot die with perma 25stacks of might and superspeed. Nerf all of these and then you can nerf harbinger(wich I AGREE) otherwise, ONCE AGAIN, necros are left without one single roaming /smallscale spec that does not need babysittting.

I agree that there are other specs that need some balance(with the exception of Mechanist which hardly deserves more nerfs) however I want anet to start balancing from the top down until the worst offenders are dealt with and Harbinger currently is at the top. Also, I didn't say delete Harbinger, I said nerf it. I actually enjoy playing Harbinger and would rather not see it gone however it's not fun when you know you're winning because of terrible balance.

Only the harb would have issues with a DE, and only in an open field without any means to LOS. If you have the latter, just hide behind a pillar (for example) and wait for friends to come. The DE will either run (which is most of them), or you're in trouble with the one in a thousand l33t DEs that will still kill everyone, and I only know one fella who can do that.

Anet has put up some terrible power creep with the last load of elites, leading to woefully overtuned builds. WB and Catalyst are the biggest offenders. Anyway, it sells more copies of the expansion I guess, so Anet did a great job out of that.

DE is worst than harb against all others classes spec that do not have sick um due to its infinite ports. I hav eseveral on my server that can easy fight off 3+ and if of those classes comes along that can chase them out of stealth they will just port away with elite etc and re engae at will. and they can kill for ex a reaper or necro or any other classes that does not play meta while in the midle of them. should be easily fixed witha huge nerf to stealth. reveal its a poor solution to this poop game stealth.

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