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Gilead to Acquire Cell Design Labs in $567M Transaction

Expands focus on CAR-T drugs with technology platform and pipeline

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

Gilead Sciences has agreed to acquire Cell Design Labs Inc. in a transaction valued at $567 million, including the shares of Cell Design Labs held by Kite. Cell Design Labs is a biotechnology company developing CAR-T and T cell receptor (TCR) therapies, a new class of cancer therapies that involve genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells to better recognize and attack cancer. Gilead gains Cell Design’s custom cell engineering technology that it is currently developing, and its pipel...

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