Immusoft inks deal with Takeda on rare neurometabolic disorders

18 October 2021

Seattle, USA-based cell therapy company Immusoft has signed a research collaboration and license option agreement with Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical (TYO: 4502) to discover, develop and commercialize transformative cell therapies in rare inherited metabolic disorders with central nervous system (CNS) manifestations and complications using Immusoft’s Immune System Programming (ISP) technology platform, which modifies a patient’s B cells and instructs the cells to deliver gene-encoded therapies.

The collaboration will focus on delivering protein therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier, a promising area of Immusoft’s research, which has the potential to enable the treatment of diseases with high unmet need.

The core components of Immusoft’s Immune System Programming (ISP) technology were developed in the Baltimore Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and exclusively licensed by Immusoft.

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