CAR-T Therapy Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment

The Human Genome Project’s completion in 2003 paved the way for personalized medicines tailored to individual patients. 

One groundbreaking example is CAR-T therapy, an innovative immunotherapy that reprograms a patient’s own T-cells to target and destroy cancer cells.

In this process, researchers extract T-cells, modify them in a lab to produce chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) and then reintroduce these CARs into the patient to actively target and eradicate cancer. Researchers are currently developing nearly 800 CAR-T therapies, with a focus on enhancing efficacy, improving safety and streamlining manufacturing to further transform cancer care.

Two scientists in lab coats and gloves examine a vial together in a laboratory, standing next to a computer monitor and illuminated workspace with various lab equipment around them.