Bringing Precision To Solid Tumor Targets

Insights From Achilles CEO, Iraj Ali

Achilles Therapeutics is betting that its clonal neoantigen-targeting T cell (cNeT) products, combined with an industrial scale advanced manufacturing capability and predictive bioinformatics platform, will have a transformational impact on patients with solid tumors and metastasized cancer.

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Syncona biotech firm Achilles Therapeutics Ltd. was founded in 2016 as a spin off from the Francis Crick Institute and University College London. It was built on the work of thoracic oncologist Charles Swanton, a founder of Achilles Therapeutics and chief clinician at Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

Swanton also leads the CRUK-sponsored TRACERx (TRAcking Cancer Evolution through therapy (Rx)) lung study, a nine-year, multi-million-dollar research project aimed...

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