Cheaper cancer care therapy earns big bucks for pharma company

India’s cell and gene therapy pioneer ImmunoAct has turned profitable in its first full year of operations, a rare feat in the country’s emerging startup landscape where research-based pharma enterprises encounter serious scale and cash flow challenges. ImmunoACT, in which Hyderabad-based drugmaker Laurus Labs has roughly 34% equity stake, saw revenues of ₹62 crore with…

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Kauvery Hospital gets advanced immunotherapy for hard-to-treat blood cancers

Dignitaries at the press conference held for the launch of CAR-T therapy at Kauvery Hospital on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet, has introduced Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy for cancer treatment.  CAR-T therapy is primarily used to treat conditions such as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, especially in…

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