General information
AvenCell Therapeutics, Inc
500 Forge Road
Suite 302
02472 Watertown, Massachusetts
USA
Contact person: Andrew Schiermeier, Chief Executive Officer
Company main phone: +1 (617) 9417468
Website: https://avencell.com
| Year founded: | 2021
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| Source of foundation: | Independent foundation |
Corporate description / mission:
AvenCell Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation cell immunotherapies for the treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers. The company focuses on engineering switchable and allogeneic CAR-T cell therapies designed to improve the safety, persistence, and flexibility of adoptive cell therapies for hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. The company's technology platform combines proprietary universal switchable CAR-T technology with CRISPR-based allogeneic cell engineering to develop both autologous and off-the-shelf cell therapy candidates.
State of ownership: Private / independent
Headquarters: HQ: Yes
Categorization
| Sector: |
- Biotechnology - Therapeutics and Diagnostics
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| Subsector: |
- Cell therapy
- Immunotherapy
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| Primary therapeutic areas: |
- Neoplasms / cancer / oncology
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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| Customer segments: |
- Other
- Hospitals
- Large biotech & big pharma
- Small biotech
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Summary Products / Services / Technologies
Number of Biotech Products
| Pre-clinical: | 4 | |
| Phase II: | 1 | |
Description of products:
AVC-201
AVC-202
AVC-203 etc.
Technology used:
UniCAR, RevCAR and TCE
Collaborations & Clients
Partnering strategy / collaborations:
Intellia Therapeutics
Blackstone Lifesciences