Adaptimmune Therapeutics Plc has entered into a collaboration with the Japanese company Noile-Immune Biotech Inc to develop new T cell therapies for cancer. The partnership will involve co-developing Adaptimmune’s T cell products with technology originated by Noile-Immune enabling the T cells to secrete interleukin 7 and the protein CCL19. This is expected to improve the proliferation and trafficking of T cells to solid tumours. Adaptimmune will make an upfront cash payment and milestone payments to Noile-Immune of up to $312 million across all programmes.
