A spin-off to develop therapies for leukaemia based on CAR-T, by Josep Carreras Institute
(Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute) Invivo Ventures, CDTI-Innvierte (Spanish Ministry of Industry) and the Josep Carreras Foundation have established a first round of funding of 3,050,000. OCI will carry out three projects, the most advanced of which is a CAR-T CD1a (OCI-1) project for the treatment of cortical T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (coT-ALL), a subtype of leukaemia that mainly affects children and which has a poor prognosis if patients do not respond to standard treatments.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
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