Cell Therapies
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
American Optimist 
the a16z Podcast 
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4 statements about Cell Therapies, every show
Cell therapies uniquely self-manufacture and expand within the patient's body
“And if you think of the cell as the actual active ingredient of the medicine, the actual medicine is a cell. What you're seeing there is that the, that, that the medicine is self manufacturing within your body and expanding, right? You could never do that with…”
Gimenez: Rare cancer therapies build infrastructure to cure broader diseases
“Once we create the tools and technologies to cure those,
We have this infrastructure layer that allows us to expand it to so many others. So we cure rare cancers or cell therapies today, but we're looking and building all of the infrastructure, the manufactur…”
Friedberg: Cell therapy costs can fall below $5,000 over the long run
“We I think that over the long run, we can get the cost of cell therapies below 5000 bucks.”
Church: Regulators favor breakthrough therapeutic platforms over incremental updates
“To some extent, I think they like new technologies more than they like the old ones. The old ones tend to fail because they're so incremental that they're no longer compared to the placebo, they're compared to whatever they're in increment over, whatever thera…”