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Supply and Licence Agreement heralds way for Personalised Cancer Treatments
Aug 13 2021
BioNTech Cell & Gene Therapies GmbH has reached a commercial agreement with Takara Bio for the use of certain patents relating to its RetroNectin® reagent, which also covers reliable supplies of the product.
Patents licensed to the Mainz-based German company are based on Takara Bio’s proprietary RetroNectin® method, which includes a technology for gene transduction to cells by retrovirus/lentivirus vector and expansion of T-cells with high efficiency.
BioNTech is allowed to use RetroNectin® for production of its cell & gene therapy products, therapies in which a patient’s T cells are genetically engineered to express a CAR for the treatment of multiple solid tumours.
The method is said to be one of the mostly used standard protocols utilised for “Engineered T-cell Therapy,” and Takara Bio is expecting higher sales growth following its recent worldwide promotional activities.
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