Cell Design Labs Envisions Robot Control of Tomorrow's CAR-T Therapies

Emerging Company Profile: San Francisco startup aligned with Kite Pharma believes T-cells may be programmed to reversibly activate and deactivate, greatly improving specificity, efficacy and safety of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies.

Using a deal with CAR-T frontrunner Kite Pharma Inc. as a springboard, San Francisco-based start-up Cell Design Labs hopes to bring forward a new generation of specific, reversible T-cell therapies as an alternative to the imprecise, explosive nature of the candidates tested to date.

Kite Pharma, Juno Therapeutics Inc. and Novartis AG have been at the forefront of development for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies, and Kite is poised to bring the first product to market with plans to submit KTE-C19 for accelerated approval to treat advanced forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by the end of the year

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