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Ordinary CAR-T therapy is made individually from each patient's own cells, which takes weeks and costs a great deal. CTX112 starts from a healthy donor instead and uses several simultaneous CRISPR edits to stop the donor cells attacking the patient and to slow the patient's immune system destroying them, so that one batch can serve many people, off the shelf.
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CTX112 is an allogeneic anti-CD19 CAR-T candidate from CRISPR Therapeutics incorporating multiple edits to remove the endogenous T-cell receptor and MHC class I, plus potency edits intended to improve persistence. It is in trials in B-cell malignancies and has been explored in autoimmune indications; it holds FDA Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designation.
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- CRISPR Therapeutics
CRISPR Therapeutics pipeline ↗