EFFICIENT SCALE-UP OF IPS CELLS FOR AUTOLOGOUS CELL THERAPY WORKFLOW

项目总结/摘要 细胞扩增是细胞治疗的关键步骤，受到昂贵且复杂的生物反应器要求的阻碍， 产生足够的细胞数量用于足够的剂量，并且需要昂贵的试剂来增强功能， 提高临床成功率。为了支持在细胞治疗工作流程中使用患者细胞，需要 对于设计用于将患者细胞从初始iPS克隆群体扩增为临床相关细胞的生物反应器 剂量这些反应器还必须适用于cGMP工艺，并且经济有效，以使其能够使用 在医疗系统内。总的来说，需要临床相关的细胞扩增技术， 足够强大和有效，能够实现自体细胞治疗工作流程作为一种可行的治疗 所有人的选择。因此，我们将解决的未满足的需求是提供基于生物反应器的工作流程，以实现高效的生物降解。 以患者特异性的方式将患者细胞转化为高质量的基于iPS细胞的治疗剂， 药物开发人员、患者、临床医生和医疗保健经济。我们的通用细胞扩增方法 （OnXpansion）使用确定的无血清培养基，并依赖于受控的聚集以增强旁分泌 信号传导和细胞-细胞接触，通过低剪切灌注增强营养输送，以及器官型组织小生境 以产生数千个相同的球状体组织，这些球状体组织可以进一步缩放以产生足够的细胞数量 用于细胞治疗，既降低了成本又减少了手工劳动。我们将这个技术中心 围绕降低其用于精准医疗的风险，并在预期范围内增加其适用性和处理 客户工作流程。我们的生物反应器产品高效（成本，时间，劳动力），易于使用，自动化，可靠， 稳健、生理相关和临床预测。大量未满足的需求和进入职位的低门槛 与竞争对手建立有利的联系。总体而言，Link的产品旨在实现可靠和强大的 精确的医学工作流程是有效的和高度的生物保真度，从而使未来的细胞， 通过降低成本，患者更容易获得治疗，通过简化工作流程，提供者更容易获得治疗。

Project Summary/Abstract Cell expansion is a critical step for cell therapy, hindered by expensive and complex bioreactor requirements to yield sufficient cell numbers for adequate dosing and requiring expensive regents to enhance functionality for increased clinical success. To support the use of patient cells within the cell therapy workflow, there is a need for bioreactors designed for expanding patient cells from an initial iPS clonal population to clinically relevant cell doses. These reactors must also be suitable for cGMP processes and economically efficient to enable their utility within the healthcare system. Overall, there is a need for clinically relevant cell expansion technologies that are robust and efficient enough to enable the realization of autologous cell therapy workflows as a viable treatment option for all. Thus, the unmet need we will address is providing a bioreactor-based workflow for the efficient translation of patient cells into high-quality iPS cell based therapeutics in a patient-specific manner – benefiting drug developers, patients, clinicians, and the healthcare economy. Our universal approach to cell expansion (OnXpansion) uses a defined serum-free media and relies on controlled aggregation for enhanced paracrine signaling and cell-cell contact, enhanced nutrient delivery via low-shear perfusion, and organotypic tissue niches to generate thousands of identical spheroid tissues that can be further scaled to yield adequate cell numbers for cell therapy at both reduced costs and manual labor. Our approach to translating this technology center around de-risking its utility for precision medicine and increasing its suitability and handling within the intended customer workflows. Our bioreactor products are efficient (cost, time, labor), easy to use, automated, reliable, robust, physiologically relevant, and clinically predictive. The large unmet need and low barrier for entry positions Link favorably against competitors. Overall, Link’s products are designed to enable a reliable and robust precision medicine workflow that is efficient and of high biological fidelity, thereby enabling a future where cell therapy is more accessible to the patient, via decreased costs, and the provider, via simplified workflows.