Cell Genesys/Takeda: Not Quite Validation for Cell Therapy
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
After enduring years of investor and partner skepticism, cell therapy has finally gotten what should be its validating deal: Cell Genesys's $50-million-upfront worldwide alliance with Takeda for Phase III GVAX prostate. But none of the companies who discussed licensing the product focused on the fact that it is a cellular therapy , regarding it as a prostate cancer treatment that happens to be a cellular therapy. Until GVAX delivers definitive and positive Phase III data, other cell therapy companies (like Dendreon and Antigenics) shouldn't get their partnering hopes up.
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