bluebird and Gritstone team up on cell therapies

23 August 2018
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bluebird bio (Nasdaq: BLUE) and privately-held Gritstone Oncology are to combine their cancer immunotherapy expertise in a bid to bring out new cell therapies.

Gritstone will leverage its EDGE artificial intelligence platform to analyze specific tumor types to identify tumor-specific targets and natural T-cell receptors (TCRs) directed to those targets for use in bluebird’s established cell therapy platforms.

"We hope to bring the power of cell therapy to a broader set of newly-validated targets"

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