BrainChild Bio’s initial CAR T-cell therapy program will focus on advancing ongoing clinical trials evaluating safety and efficacy in pediatric brain tumors.
December 5, 2023, Seattle, WA – Seattle Children’s announced the launch of BrainChild Bio, Inc. to accelerate the advancement of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies in Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors. BrainChild Bio will be granted an exclusive license to novel CAR T-cell technology for CNS tumors developed at Seattle Children’s and will build upon the pioneering CAR T-cell therapy and clinical translational work of Michael Jensen, M.D., and his team at Seattle Children’s Therapeutics. Seattle Children’s has provided the initial equity funding for BrainChild Bio which will operate as an independently managed corporation. [Read more…]