Singapore-based firm on track to commercialise cancer drug
Tessa Therapeutics teams up with California institute to run cancer-therapy trial, commercial launch expected in 2020
Singapore
SCIENTISTS are now a step closer to turning cancer patients' own immune cells (T-cells) against the tumours in their bodies - and possibly finding a cure for the dreaded disease.
A Singapore-based biotechnology firm has emerged ahead of the very crowded research field of T-cell immunotherapy, by conducting the world's first US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Phase Three cancer T-cell therapy trial involving a number of hospitals and treatment centres across the world.
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