Melbourne-based Prescient will focus development of its OmniCAR platform into three programs: the blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia (AML); solid tumours including breast, ovarian and gastric cancers; and glioblastoma multiforme, the aggressive brain cancer.
Prescient’s OmniCAR technology represents a step up from the current chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy, a form of immunotherapy that involves modifying a patient’s white blood cells so they recognise and kill cancer cells.
An American woman, Laurie Adami, recently told Stockhead how CAR T therapy saved her life by curing her stage IV follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma.