Novartis shut down Irv Weissman's promising breast cancer cell therapy program
Ivan Dimov · Ep 83: A New Leukemia Cure with Ivan Dimov of Orca Bio · Joe Lonsdale · Apr 5, 2024 · at 4:47
Ivan Dimov, CEO of Orca Bio, explains how examining Irv Weissman's shuttered cell therapy project at Stanford inspired the founding of Orca Bio.
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“They had really incredible results in terminal breast cancer patients, and it was ultimately acquired by Sandoz slash Novartis, and everyone thought that was going to be delivered to patients, but You know, they shut down the whole program two years later, and we went back and looked at it almost 10 years later, or 12 years later, and saw that the cure rates were really incredible. It was like several fold higher than what you'd expect.”
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