Thrive’s quest to bring multicancer liquid biopsy test into routine clinical use

With Third Rock leading the way in a $110 million series A, newly launched Thrive is banking that a multi-analyte approach to liquid biopsy could give it an edge in creating a test that is affordable enough for routine use in primary care. Thrive Earlier Detection Corp. launched on May 30 with an exclusive license to CancerSEEK, a multi-analyte test that has been in development by the company’s scientific co-founders Bert Vogelstein, Kenneth Kinzler and Nickolas Papadopoulos at Johns Hopkins University for over 25 years.