ArsenalBio bags $70 million upfront from Roche CAR-T deal

27 September 2022

Privately-held Arsenal Biosciences, a programmable cell therapy company engineering advanced CAR T therapies for solid tumors, has announced a multi-year collaboration with the Roche (ROG: SIX) subsidiary Genentech.

The companies will use ArsenalBio’s technology for high-throughput screening and engineering of T cells in an attempt to identify critical success circuits in T cell-based therapies.

"A testament to the strength of our platforms and their utility in identifying the attributes of T cells that offer the most promise"This discovery process brings together automation, large-scale genome engineering with high-content profiling and machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to help design, build and test cell therapies for cancer.

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