Becker's Healthcare March 5, 2025
Elizabeth Gregerson

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center recently opened the Roswell Park GMP Engineering & Cell Manufacturing Facility, a $98 million cell and gene therapy hub aimed at growing the center’s capabilities for cancer cell therapy research.

Also called the Roswell Park GEM, the facility is the largest academic cell and gene therapy research and manufacturing facility in the U.S.

While the center’s focus will be on developing cell and gene therapies to treat solid-tumor cancers, it will be building off of the scientific research and discoveries that brought chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy to the forefront of oncology care.

Leading the way is Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD, deputy director, chair in the department of medicine and the Katherine...

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