Q&A: How Pen­n's CAR-T man­u­fac­tur­ing dis­cov­ery has dras­ti­cal­ly re­duced time­lines

It takes a min­i­mum of two weeks to pull off some kinds of CAR-T cell ther­a­py man­u­fac­tur­ing. But now a team at Penn says it has dis­cov­ered a way to do it in mere­ly hours.

A pa­per pub­lished in Na­ture Bio­med­ical En­gi­neer­ing and au­thored by Penn’s Perel­man School of Med­i­cine re­searchers Michael Milone and Sa­ba Ghas­se­mi builds up­on re­search from 2018 that re­duced tra­di­tion­al CAR-T man­u­fac­tur­ing to just three days.

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