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Anixa to start CAR-T trial for ovarian cancer

by Megha Satyanarayana
September 2, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 32

 

The US Food and Drug Administration has accepted Anixa Biosciences’s investigational new drug application, clearing the company to begin clinical trials of its chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatment for ovarian cancer. Moffitt Cancer Center developed the therapy, which consists of T cells from a person with ovarian cancer that are engineered to recognize the follicle stimulating hormone receptor. CAR-T has been successful in treating blood cancers but has been difficult to adapt to solid tumors.

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