Kite And Juno Threatened By Cellectis' Off-The-Shelf CAR-T Success
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
An unexpected breakthrough announced by Cellectis for its experimental off-the-shelf CAR-T therapy has raised the possibility that much-hyped therapies using a patient's own cells, under development at Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics may become commercially obsolete before they even reach the market.
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