Royalty Report: Cancer, Medical, cell therapy – Collection: 324365

Bioreactors is for cell culture.

Polysaccharides is part of the Scaffold group. Scaffolds, including alginate and sulfated alginate scaffolds, polysaccharides thereof, and scaffolds for use for cell propagation, trans-differentiation, and transplantation in the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

RUXIENCE is approved in the US for treating chronic Lymphotic leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Microscopic Polyangiitis with glucocorticoids, and Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis.

Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) is a condition that causes small blood vessels to be inflamed. It's a rare type of vasculitis. The disease can damage the blood vessels and cause problems in organs around the body. MPA most often affects people in their 50s and 60s, but it can happen in people of any age.

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis is an uncommon disorder that causes inflammation of the blood vessels in your nose, sinuses, throat, lungs and kidneys. Formerly called Wegener's granulomatosis, this condition is one of a group of blood vessel disorders called vasculitis. It slows blood flow to some of your organs.

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis is an uncommon disorder that causes inflammation of the blood vessels in your nose, sinuses, throat, lungs and kidneys. Formerly called Wegener's granulomatosis, this condition is one of a group of blood vessel disorders called vasculitis. It slows blood flow to some of your organs.

Aallogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), called Facilitated Allo-HSCT Therapy.  

The product candidate, FCR001, which is central to Facilitated Allo-HSCT Therapy, is a novel allogeneic cell therapy comprised of stem and immune cells that are procured from a healthy donor, who is also the organ donor in the case of organ transplantation. FCR001 is rapidly processed in the GMP facility using proprietary manufacturing methods. Then, at the time of the transplant, FCR001 is administered to the recipient following nonmyeloablative conditioning, which is designed to be less toxic than myeloablative conditioning. A fully myeloablative conditioning regimen consists of a combination of agents and high doses of total body irradiation that destroy hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the bone marrow and results in profound depletion of HSC-derived cells within one to three weeks following administration that is irreversible, and in most instances is fatal unless rescued by a stem cell transplant. The nonmyeloablative conditioning for FCR001 entails lower doses of chemotherapy and total body irradiation, causes less depletion of blood cells and does not require stem cell support for the recipient to resume the production of blood cells and platelets.

Allo-HSCT Therapy has the potential to treat a range of severe autoimmune diseases and severe non-malignant blood, immune and metabolic disorders, in each case with potential for similar outcomes to what has previously been observed with HSCT, while mitigating the toxicities, morbidities and extended hospital stay associated with the conditioning regimen typically required by HSCT.

Facilitated Allo-HSCT Therapy could prevent organ rejection without the morbidity and mortality that has been associated with the use of lifelong anti-rejection medicines, also known as chronic immunosuppression.

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes are white blood cells that have left the bloodstream and migrated towards a tumor. They include T cells and B cells and are part of the larger category of ‘tumor-infiltrating immune cells’ which consist of both mononuclear and polymorphonuclear immune cells, (i.e., T cells, B cells, natural killer cells, macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells, mast cells, eosinophils, basophils, etc.) in variable proportions. Their abundance varies with tumor type and stage and in some cases relates to disease prognosis

lmprovements mean any Intellectual Property developed after the Effective Date by the Inventor/Licensor or any third party affiliated with Licensor that constitutes an improvement or enhancement of the functions of the Technology, that is associated to the Technology and that relates to a bioreactor device able to feed and repopulate a rotating tubular structure, with the exclusion of different or new functions relating to generation of electrical fields, pressure fields and fluid dynamic fields.

This bioreactor is the first in a series of products that Licensee is developing to address what we believe is a long-term growth opportunity in the emerging field of regenerative medicine. Regenerative medicine is a new field that uses stem cells to repair damaged organs (e.g., spinal cord and heart) and also to grow tissue (e.g., bladder and bronchus) and organs (e.g., heart and lung) outside the body for transplant.

InBreath hollow organ bioreactor is a device that can be used by a surgeon to seed cells onto a scaffold. The InBreath bioreactor enables the surgeon to
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secure the scaffold to the bioreactor;
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seed the patient’s cells on the scaffold under sterile conditions;
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automatically rotate the scaffold to allow good cell distribution into the pores of the scaffold; and
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remotely monitor the scaffold during the course of the two to three days incubation period before the transplant.
The InBreath bioreactor has several novel features such as allowing for separate cell seeding conditions on the inside and outside of the scaffold and for pumping cell culture media through the inside of the scaffold without the need for an external pump and tubes. The Licensee believe the InBreath hollow organ bioreactor is the world’s first bioreactor that has been used to perform a human transplant of a regenerated organ.

The Technology has proven beneficial medical uses in organ transplant as well as the potential for use in other areas.

CPS means any system or device for substantially increasing, the number of cells, ex vivo, for human therapeutic uses, that may be configured in different component structures (such as described for the Automated CPS or the Manual CPS).

Licensed Product means the Automated CPS (both the Durables and the Disposables) as used for one or more specific Lymphoid Cell Applications.

Licensor is developing proprietary process technologies and devices for a range of cell therapy applications, including stem cell therapies and gene therapy. The lead product under development, the Licensors Cell Production System (the CPS) consists of a clinical cell culture system with disposable cassettes and reagents for use in the rapidly growing stem cell therapy market.

Licensee, a competitor, along with others, are in advanced stages of development of technologies and products for use in stem cell therapy and other market applications currently being pursued by the Licensor.