Fierce Pharma May 15, 2024
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Though Galapagos has undergone plenty of staff shakeups and strategy revamps in recent years, the company is sticking strong to the CAR-T pivot first unveiled by CEO Paul Stoffels, M.D., following his arrival at the biotech from Johnson & Johnson in early 2022.

Now, the Belgium-based company is teaming up with the largest blood supply network in the U.S. to help realize its decentralized production ambitions for CAR-T therapies on a national scale.

Late Wednesday, Galapagos unveiled a new pact with Blood Centers of America (BCA), gaining access to the collection and donation network’s 50-plus community blood centers across 43 states to assist with manufacturing of Galapagos’ clinical CAR-T programs in hematology/oncology.

For its decentralized manufacturing approach, Galapagos works...

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