harvester schreef op 3 april 2018 21:15:
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Dat zag ik niet aankomen, maar geeft aan dat er weer wat reuring is in de biotech en dit keer niet omdat er iets niet goed gaat (althans nu nog niet, al blijft kanker onderzoek risky)
April 3 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it would take a 25 percent stake in Allogene Therapeutics to accelerate the development of CAR T cell therapies sourced from donors instead of patients.
CAR T drugs are seen as the future of cancer treatments, with a number of drugmakers looking to boost their pipeline with such drugs.
San Francisco-based Allogene specializes in allogeneic therapies that are engineered from cells of healthy donors, allowing them to be stored for "off-the-shelf" use and reducing the time patients must wait for treatment.
Allogene is co-founded and led by former Kite Pharma executives, including its former chief executive, Arie Belldegrun, who sold Kite to Gilead Sciences Inc for $12 billion last year.
"The agreement marks a shift in Pfizer's strategy from an active role to a passive role in the CAR-T space," Guggenheim analyst Tony Butler said in a client note.