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AbbVie, Caribou Ink CAR-T Collaboration

Leverages Caribou's next-generation CRISPR genome editing technology platform and AbbVie's antigen-specific binders.

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

AbbVie and the clinical-stage CRISPR genome editing biotech, Caribou Biosciences, have entered into a collaboration and license agreement for the research and development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapeutics. Although allogeneic, “off-the-shelf” CAR-T cell therapies have shown early promise in some cancer patients, the need for overcoming the rejection of allogeneic CAR-T cells by the host immune system remains a key challenge to their broader development. Employing...

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