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Parker Institute and Xyphos to develop universal CAR T-cell therapies

by Ryan Cross
October 19, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 42

 

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and start-up Xyphos Biosciences are teaming up to develop universal and controllable CAR T-cell therapies that can treat many kinds of cancers. Whereas the two CAR T-cell therapies on the market are engineered to attack one particular protein, Xyphos is designing what it calls convertible CAR T cells, which can be redirected to many targets. The cells are activated by bispecific antibodies that bind a CAR T cell at one end and the cancer cell at the other end. Xyphos expects to test its first therapy in humans in early 2020.

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