Cell Therapy's Live Analytical Challenges

By: Dalip Sethi, Director of Scientific Affairs, Terumo BCT

Cell therapies are a new, exciting, and complex branch of medicine that uses living cells as drugs. And with that complexity comes multiple analytical challenges – depending on the initial cell source and the nature of the manufacturing process. One main analytical challenge is establishing invitro potency assays that represent the therapy’s mechanism of action in vivo, which is either undefined or far more complex than one would encounter with small molecules or monoclonal antibodies.

Explore with us some of the tools analytical science provides that could resolve a variety of challenges in the cell and gene therapy space.