Tech Transfer Roundup: MD Anderson Working To Unlock Promise Of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes

The center is partnering with Obsidian to make autologous TILs work better after being infused back into patients by using IL-15, which may be less toxic than the high-dose IL-2 currently used.

Tech Transfer

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes have long been regarded as a promising modality for treating solid tumor cancers with cell therapy, but an ongoing challenge in tapping that potential has been manufacturing. Addressing that, along with defining a regulatory path, will be the key barriers to bringing to market a technology that researchers know is effective at fighting solid tumors, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center'sJason Bock told Scrip.

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