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Autolus starts living medicine cancer trials

19-Sep-2017

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London start-up launches Car-T clinical trials.

Carrying out three Car-T (chimeric antigen receptor T-cell) studies.

Autologous treatments engineer the patients’ own immune cells to recognise and kill cancer cells.

40 companies are working on similar living drug treatments.

Dual targeting approach may give Autolus a competitive edge.

Company was spun out of University College London in 2014.

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Cancer