Pfizer Steps into the CAR-T Immunotherapy Field With Cellectis Deal
Pfizer's deal with the French company will ensure a market share in the promising immunooncology field.
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer, which failed last month in a $118 billion bid to buy AstraZeneca , said on Wednesday it had signed a deal with French biotech Cellectis to develop immunotherapy drugs in cancer.
Boosting the body's immune system to fight tumours is a hot area for drug research and was one of the factors that attracted Pfizer to Britain's AstraZeneca - along with the potential to cut costs and taxes. The technology used by Cellectis involves reprogramming immune system cells to hunt out cancer and represents a different approach to that used by drugs under development at AstraZeneca.
The French company's research is still at an early stage but it hopes to start clinical trials in 2015, initially with a drug for leukaemia that it has already partnered with unlisted pharmaceuticals group Servier.
Press release: http://reut.rs/1l2FNFt
Source: Reuters
World Pancreatic Cancer Day 2024: Looking Back at Progress in Cell and Gene Therapy
November 21st 2024In observance of World Pancreatic Cancer Day, held on the third Thursday of November each year, we took a look back at the past year's news in cell and gene therapy for pancreatic cancer indications.
