Amarna Therapeutics teams up with CBmed on immunotherapies

Privately held Dutch biotech firm Amarna Therapeutics has entered into a cooperation with the Austrian Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine (CBmed), for the development of immunotherapies against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), obesity, diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).

The agreement, financial terms of which were not disclosed, includes the design, development and testing in two separate projects of a CAR T-cell therapy and reverse vaccines for the treatment of these major diseases with high unmet clinical needs. Amarna will contribute its proprietary SVac viral gene delivery vector platform to this collaboration and CBmed will perform in-vitro and in-vivo preclinical R&D and develop cutting-edge immunological assays in its core laboratory.

Collaboration will test Amarna’s SVac vector platform