Cell & Gene Therapy
Cell therapy's second act: why Boston is still winning
Four years after the first wave of CAR-T IPOs, Massachusetts is quietly becoming the centre of gravity for the next generation of cell therapies — this time, for solid tumours.
When the FDA approved the first CAR-T therapy for leukaemia in 2017, the assumption across the industry was that the blood cancer playbook would translate quickly into solid tumours. It did not.