HOUSTON--Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLCM), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel cellular immunotherapies, today announced that it has entered into a lease agreement to enable in-house cell therapy manufacturing to supply clinical trials. The additional 27,000 square feet will be located in the Company's current headquarters building adjacent to the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
"Bringing manufacturing in-house allows us to build upon our process and assay development expertise and streamline the production of our cell therapy product candidates, under our full control," said Tom Farrell, Bellicum's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The planned facility is intended to provide study drug for clinical studies of BPX-501 and to support the development of our expanding pipeline of TCR and CAR-T adoptive cell therapy product candidates."
About Bellicum Pharmaceuticals
Bellicum is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel cellular immunotherapies for various forms of cancer, including hematological cancers and solid tumors, as well as orphan inherited blood disorders. The Company is using its proprietary Chemical Induction of Dimerization, or CID, technology platform to engineer and control components of the immune system in real time. Bellicum is developing next-generation product candidates in some of the most important areas of cellular immunotherapy, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, or HSCT, CAR T cell therapy, and dendritic cell vaccines.
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