Astellas and Kelonia Therapeutics Enter into Research and License Agreement to Develop Novel Immuno-Oncology Therapeutics
Adam Pearson, Chief Strategy Officer (CStO) of Astellas commented, “At Astellas, we have a strong commitment to developing novel treatments for patients with cancer and have positioned Immuno-Oncology as a Primary Focus of our R&D strategy*3. With iGPS, Kelonia has an elegant, cutting-edge in vivo delivery technology, and by combining with the ACCELTM platform, we believe the collaboration will bring synergies between the two companies’ breakthrough research and will ultimately lead to expansion of Astellas’ portfolio and to delivery of innovative in vivo CAR-T cell therapies to cancer patients.”
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