Cellectis To Build New Manufacturing Facility In North Carolina ; French Plant In-Progress

Cellectis , a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene-edited allogeneic CAR T-cells (UCART), announced that it has entered into a lease agreement to build an 82,000 square foot commercial-scale manufacturing facility named IMPACT (Innovative Manufacturing Plant for Allogeneic Cellular Therapies) in Raleigh, North Carolina, for clinical and commercial production of Cellectis’ leading allogeneic UCART products. In addition, Cellectis started building a 14,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Paris, France named SMART (Starting Material Realization for CAR-T products) to produce Cellectis’ critical starting material supply for UCART clinical studies and commercial products.

Cellectis is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that harnesses the immune system to target and eradicate cancers. Unlike autologous CAR-T immunotherapies that require a custom immunotherapy product for each patient, Cellectis uses gene editing to create cost-effective, "off-the-shelf" (allogeneic) products (UCART) from healthy donors that can be immediately available for patients across all geographies. What’s more, for patients without enough T-cells for autologous CAR T therapy, Cellectis can create T-cells based on patients’ own T-cells.

Cellectis has 19 years of expertise in gene editing based on its flagship TALEN technology and pioneering electroporation system PulseAgile. This enables us to develop a new generation of immunotherapy product candidates with additional safety and efficacy attributes designed to prevent them from attacking healthy tissues, and equip them to resist mechanisms that inhibit immune system activity. And unlike autologous treatments that use the patient’s own T-cells – which get progressively weaker with each round of chemotherapy – Cellectis' allogeneic cells remain strong. For more information, visit https://www.cellectis.com/.