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IP Commercializer PureTech Enters CAR-T With Vor BioPharma Start-Up

 
• By Sten Stovall

PureTech Health has moved into the hot area of CAR-T immuno-oncology by launching Vor BioPharma - but the IP commercializer isn't giving details on the start-up's novel chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy platform, or how it hopes to remove bottlenecks to the approach's use outside of B-cell cancers.

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David Steinberg, Executive Vice President of PureTech Health and Co-Founder of Vor BioPharma • Source: PureTech Health PLC

Boston, Mass.-based but UK-listed PureTech Health PLC says its Vor BioPharma start-up is advancing a novel approach to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy that has the potential to broaden the science's applicability and success rate in other cancers – but it's not willing to say exactly how it will do that.

Its platform technology has been licensed from the lab of Vor’s scientific co-founder, Siddhartha Mukherjee, who is assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University in New York City, and the

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