Entering the final project year, the CARAT consortium is happy to announce the release of an animated clip illustrating the project work and its possible impact on cellular cancer treatments of the future. The short animation aims to showcase the project approach and goals in an easy-to-understand and entertaining format in order to inform...

From December 10-14, 2018, Miltenyi Biotec once again hosted the unique CARAT training event on GMP-compliant CAR T cell manufacturing at its headquarters in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. After the first successful training of its kind in 2017 this year’s event attracted even more applications from scientists with profound experience in the cell...

Following earlier approvals in the US, two CAR-T cell therapeutics obtained marketing authorization from the European Commission in August 2018. The new CAR-T cell therapies provide treatment options for cancer patients who have failed to responded to other treatment options. Immune cells are extracted from the patient, genetically modified to...

9th Institut Cochin Symposium in Paris, France organised by CARAT partner INSERM

Horizon - The EU Research & Innovation Magazine has published an article on the advances of cell production factories in bringing life-saving cell therapies to an ever larger number of patients. The CARAT project is featured in this article as the project is contributing to improve Miltenyi’s CliniMACS Prodigy – a machine built for automatic...

On June 25-27, 2018, the CARAT consortium met for their extended 3rd Progress Meeting kindly hosted by Prof. Toni Cathomen and his team from the University Medical Center in Freiburg. 2.5 years into the project, the agenda was packed not only with internal monitoring and planning activities but also with exciting external undertakings in terms of...

During the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in Lisbon, Portugal, CARAT was very active in further promoting CAR T cells for cellular therapy. A central event was the very successful joint EBMT-CARAT session on March 19, 2018 chaired by Christian Chabannon (Aix-Marseille University School of...

CARAT approach mentioned as solution for challenges in GoingPublic Magazin