posted on 2019-03-11, 10:00authored byRichard Harrison, Ezequiel Zylberberg, Simon Ellison, Bruce L. Levine
Cell and gene therapies have demonstrated excellent clinical results across a range of indications with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–T cell therapies among the first to reach market. Although these therapies are currently manufactured using patient-derived cells, therapies using healthy donor cells are in development, potentially offering avenues toward process improvement and patient access. An allogeneic model could significantly reduce aggregate cost of goods (COGs), potentially improving market penetration of these life-saving treatments. Furthermore, the shift toward offshore production may help reduce manufacturing costs. In this article, we examine production costs of an allogeneic CAR-T cell process and the potential differential manufacturing costs between regions. Two offshore locations are compared with regions within the United States. The critical findings of this article identify the COGs challenges facing manufacturing of allogeneic CAR-T immunotherapies, how these may evolve as production is sent offshore and the wider implication this trend could have.
Funding
This study was supported by an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Engineering, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (ETERM) Landscape fellowship grant (R.H.) reference EP/I017801/1.
History
School
Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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Cytotherapy
Citation
HARRISON, R.P. ... et al, 2019. Chimeric antigen receptor–T cell therapy manufacturing: modelling the effect of offshore production on aggregate cost of goods. Cytotherapy, 21 (2), pp. 224-233.
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Publication date
2019-02-13
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This is an Open Access article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/