Regeneron And Bluebird Team Up In Cell Therapy "Joint Venture"-Style Deal

Regeneron will make a $100m equity investment in bluebird to collaborate on the discovery of antibodies and T cell receptors, with the hope of building out in immuno-oncology and overcoming some of the early cell therapy challenges. Regeneron's business development chief talks to Scrip about its strategy.

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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and bluebird bio Inc. are teaming up in a cell therapy collaboration, and they hope together to overcome some of the safety and efficacy challenges that have faced the first generation of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies.

The two companies announced a deal Aug. 6 to collaborate on the discovery and development of antibodies and T-cell receptors...

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