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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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 said 28 March that it was in active discussions with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle to do an investigator-sponsored Phase I trial of MB-106 in autoimmune diseases, which would start in the fourth quarter of this year, in addition to the pivotal trial of the CAR-T

Key Takeaways
  • Mustang said it is in talks with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to run an investigator-sponsored trial of MB-106 in autoimmune diseases, anticipated in the fourth quarter.

  • CEO Manuel Litchman said in an interview that the idea is to use an investigator-sponsored trial and have the cancer center perform preclinical testing to reduce the cost burden on the biotech

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