Allogene Therapeutics Inc

Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical stage immuno-oncology company pioneering the development and commercialization of genetically engineered allogeneic T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and currently employs 150 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2018-10-11. The firm is focused on development of genetically engineered allogeneic T cell product candidates for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company is focused on three core programs: Large B-Cell Lymphoma (LBCL), Autoimmune Disease (AID), and Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC). The company is developing a pipeline of multiple allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell product candidates utilizing protein engineering, gene editing, gene insertion and advanced proprietary T cell manufacturing technologies. Its product candidate, cemacabtagene ansegedleucel, referred to as cema-cel, is an engineered allogeneic CAR T cell product candidate that targets CD19, a protein expressed on the cell surface of B cells and a validated target for B cell driven hematological malignancies. The company is focused on developing cema-cel for LBCL. Its pipeline also includes ALLO-316 and ALLO-329.