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Immuneel COO On Benchmarking The Firm’s CAR-T Against Mature, Global Data Sets

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Immuneel’s COO, Dr Arun Anand, talks to Scrip about how things are shaping for the Indian start-up’s autologous CD19 directed CAR-T cell therapy and the ‘journey to be traversed’ on the pricing front. He believes India could potentially see cell therapies being commercialized in the next 12 to 18 months.

Immuneel progresses CAR-T therapy • Source: Shutterstock

Immuneel Therapeutics’ COO, Dr Arun Anand, recounted with pride how some of the greats in the CAR-T and hemato-oncology fields including Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) inventor Dr Carl June, and Dr Noopur Raje reacted to the data presented at the clinical stage cell and gene therapy start-up’s posters during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in the US last year.

Some industry leaders at the meeting were perhaps “very intrigued” that developing a CAR-T cell therapy was even possible in...

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