Achilles On Getting ‘New Wave’ Immunotherapy From Concept To Clinic In Three Years

Clonal neoantigen immunotherapy developer Achilles Therapeutics tells the Pink Sheet how the regulatory landscape for advanced therapies might not be as tricky as it used to be.

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Achilles is set to start testing its monoclonal neoantigen-based therapy in humans • Source: Shutterstock

Achilles Therapeutics is convinced that the timing could not be better when it comes to navigating its next-generation, personalized T cell therapy for solid tumors through the historically challenging regulatory landscape for advanced therapies.

The company has managed to take its investigational clonal neoantigen-based therapy from a concept on the whiteboard into the clinic...

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