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Kite Pharma, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that develops cancer immunotherapy products with a primary focus on genetically engineered autologous CAR T cell therapy - a cell-based therapy which relies on chimeric antigen receptors and T cells.
In May 2015, the company announced its intention to acquire Stage Cell Therapeutics for up to $223 million. [6] Later in the same month the company launched a collaboration, with Editas Medicine, to create CAR-T and high-affinity T cell receptor therapies to treat cancer, with the potential to generate up to $737 million-plus for Editas. [7]
Prescient Therapeutics Ltd (Prescient) was created in 2014 by bringing together two small molecule drug assets from separate US private companies (Pathway Oncology for PTX-100 and AKTivate Therapeutics for PTX-200) into the existing ASX-listed shell company Virax Holdings Ltd (Virax).
Depiction of adoptive cell transfer therapy with CAR-engineered T cells. The first step in the production of CAR T-cells is the isolation of T cells from human blood. CAR T-cells may be manufactured either from the patient's own blood, known as an autologous treatment, or from the blood of a healthy donor, known as an allogeneic treatment. The ...
The announcement also includes a number to call, 1-800-FDA-1088, to report suspected adverse events associated with CAR-T therapies, including T-cell malignancies, or they can be reported at fda ...
Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. is an American clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel, potentially curative therapeutics leveraging CRISPR-based technologies. The company's in vivo programs use intravenously administered CRISPR as the therapy, in which the company's proprietary delivery technology enables highly precise ...
Mustang Bio was founded in 2015 and in the same year became a partner company of Fortress Biotech. [5] [7] In April 2017, Manuel Litchman took over as CEO of Mustang Bio, and in October of the same year, the company signed a lease with the University of Massachusetts Medicine Science Park in Worcester, MA, for a manufacturing facility to support the clinical development and commercialization ...
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