Bellicum Deal Enables Astellas To Progress PSCA Tech
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Bellicum has licensed in global rights to apply certain technology from Astellas to PSCA-targeting cell therapies for cancer, in a deal which helps the US firm take its first candidate in the field into the clinic next year, and enables Astellas to benefit from an area where it had previously discontinued some of its own projects.
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