Weill Cornell Medical College and Cellectis link up on AML research

4 June 2015

The USA’s Weill Cornell Medical College and French biotech firm Cellectis (Euronext Paris: ALCLS) have entered into a strategic translational research alliance to accelerate the development of a targeted immunotherapy for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a deadly blood cancer.

The alliance will foster the development of Cellectis’ lead product candidate in AML, called UCART123. No financial terms of the collaboration have been revealed.

The collaboration combines Weill Cornell’s broad expertise and resources in translational stem cell science and developmental therapeutics with Cellectis’ work in development and manufacturing of gene edited CAR-T cell product candidates, a special kind of immune cell that includes an antibody-derived receptor.

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