As CAR-T therapies mature, researchers begin to track long-term patient outcomes

CAR-T therapies progressed to market at an unprecedented pace. Due to their accelerated FDA approvals, long-term data on how patients fare post-treatment isn’t readily available. As the number of patients commercially treated with CAR-T therapy grows, long-term outcomes data has the potential to influence the entire industry of personalized cell and gene therapies. As with…

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CAR-T 2.0

The field of cancer immunotherapies was buoyed last year by the FDA’s approval of the first autologous CAR-T drugs on the market, Novartis’ Kymriah and Gilead’s Yescarta. But, many drug makers are already looking in a new direction — off-the-shelf, or allogeneic, CAR-T therapies. In autologous therapies, like Kymriah and Yescarta, scientists isolate T cells from…

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Q&A with Be The Match BioTherapies Director of Product Development Operations, Dr. Jamie Margolis

Last month, Jamie Margolis, PhD, who has been with Be The Match BioTherapies® since its inception, was promoted to Director of Product Development Operations. We spoke with her about key challenges the cell therapy industry is facing and how Be The Match BioTherapies is positioned, and growing, to help companies advance their cell or gene…

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Q&A with Be The Match BioTherapies Medical Director, Dr. Steven Devine

Earlier this month, Dr. Steven Devine, a renowned blood and marrow transplant physician, joined our organization as the Be The Match BioTherapies Medical Director. He came to the organization from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James). We spoke with Dr. Devine…