Novartis Debuts Rapidly Manufactured Autologous CAR-Ts
Executive Summary
The company presented early data on two candidates at the ASH meeting that use a less than two-day manufacturing process, YTB323 in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and PHE885 in multiple myeloma.
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