Friday, April 3, 2020 Daily Archives

Allogene turns to MaxCyte’s tech for its off-the-shelf CAR-T therapies

MaxCyte says its clinically validated electroporation technology will help increase efficiency and improve yield of Allogene’s allogeneic CAR-T therapy candidates. Pfizer-backed biotech Allogene launched in 2018 with a focus on developing allogeneic, or off-the-shelf, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies. To achieve this, the firm has regularly stressed the importance of manufacturing, devoting “considerable time and resources†to the process. Now the firm has inked a deal to use MaxCyte’s ExPERT platform to develop and advance its candidates through to…