Lyell Immunopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LYEL) announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ImmPACT Bio USA Inc. (“ImmPACT”), a privately-owned clinical-stage biotechnology company. ImmPACT’s lead program, IMPT-314, is a CD19/20-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product candidate that Lyell will continue to develop for hematologic malignancies, including large B-cell lymphoma. IMPT-314 was designed to outperform the efficacy of approved CD19 CAR T-cell therapies via a dual-targeting CAR T-cell design and to improve CAR T-cell persistence by enriching for naïve and central memory T cells during manufacturing.
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Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/10/24/2969054/0/en/Lyell-Immunopharma-to-Acquire-ImmPACT-Bio-and-Prioritizes-its-Pipeline-to-Focus-on-Next-Generation-CAR-T-cell-Therapies.html