Continuing a collaborative research agreement signed in 2016, Neon Therapeutics licensed technology from the [Netherlands Cancer Institute] (NKI) that will enable it to advance its personalized neoantigen T-cell therapy candidate NEO-PTC-01 into clinical development.
Tech Transfer Roundup: Neon Licenses NKI IP To Advance Cell Therapy Into Clinic
Continuing a partnership between Neon co-founder and two Netherlands Cancer Institute researchers, agreement will help autologous T-cell candidate move into Phase I. Plus Scrip's monthly roundup of tech transfer deals.

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