Tech startup BioOra aims to scale up and democratise blood cancer treatments

Tech startup BioOra aims to scale up and democratise blood cancer treatments
One of the machines BioOra will use to automate CAR-T cell production. (Image: BioOra/Malaghan Institute)
Greg Hurrell
New Zealand tech startup company BioOra is in the business of automating an experimental but laborious cancer therapy process now undergoing clinical trials.BioOra was specifically set up to automate the manufacture of the Malaghan Institute’s individualised treatment for some types of blood cancer.To start with, the automated process will allow more patients to be brought into the trials, but if Medsafe approves the therapy, it is on track to become a standard blood cancer therapy.While BioOra has ambitions to manufacture Malaghan’...

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