MD Anderson, Berkeley Lights Launch Cancer Cell Therapy Company

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Berkeley Lights said today they have launched a new biopharma focused on developing cancer cell therapies discovered at MD Anderson, and manufacturing them at broad scale.The new company, Optera Therapeutics, would be able to speed up development of the new treatments and broaden patient access to them by applying Berkeley Lights' advanced cell therapy manufacturing systems to the new treatments, the company and MD Anderson said.“Our ho