GC019F is an autologous CAR-T therapy currently in development for adult B-ALL patients who are relapsed from or refractory to prior therapies. With the therapy, a patient's own T cells are genetically modified to express CD19-specific CAR. GC019F is manufactured on Gracell's FasTCAR technology platform, which significantly reduces manufacturing time from an industry norm of two to six weeks down to 22 to 36 hours.
"This marks the first IND approval for a product candidate manufactured on Gracell 's FasTCAR platform and sets an important milestone for furthering therapies manufactured on this platform. We are excited to bring this new therapy to adult B-ALL patients, who - once relapsed from or refractory to therapy - remain a high unmet medical need with limited treatment options in
About GC019F
GC019F is an autologous investigational CD19-targeted CAR-T cell therapy, directed to eradicate CD19 positive leukemia cells.
About FasTCAR
FasTCAR-manufactured CAR-T cells appear younger, less exhausted and show enhanced proliferation, persistence, bone marrow migration and tumor cell clearance activities as demonstrated in preclinical studies. With next-day manufacturing (22 to 36 hours), FasTCAR is able to significantly improve cell production efficiency which may result in meaningful cost savings, increasing the accessibility of cell therapies for cancer patients.
About B-ALL
B-ALL, a major form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), is one of the most common forms of cancer in children between the ages of two and five and adults over the age of 50.[1] In 2015, ALL affected around 837,000 people globally and resulted in 110,000 deaths worldwide.[2] It is also the most common cause of cancer and death from cancer among children.
About Gracell
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