Fate seals new deal to develop natural killer cell therapies

28 June 2022
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Japanese drugmaker Ono Pharmaceutical (TYO: 4528) and US biotech Fate Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FATE) have boosted their collaboration, adding the discovery of CAR-NK cell therapies to an existing agreement.

Since 2018 the firms have been working together to discover CAR-T cell therapies derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), an approach which will continue to be used.

Fate’s iPSC platform is designed to deliver off-the-shelf cell products for delivery over multiple doses, boosting pharmacologic activity and including the potential for combination therapies.

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