Mustang Bio Inc. is following an increasing portion of the CAR-T cell therapy field in expanding development of its lead product candidate, MB-106, to include autoimmune diseases in addition to the B-cell malignancies, in which it is already studying the autologous CAR-T candidate.
Mustang Bio Enters Race For CAR-T In Autoimmune Disease
The biotech company’s CEO talked to Scrip about plans to bring the CD20-targeting CAR-T MB-106 into an investigator-sponsored Phase I trial later this year.
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