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Atara Biotherapeutics Announces The Completion Of The Acquisition Of Its Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility & Commencement Of Long-Term Strategic Partnership With Fujifilm

Atara Biotherapeutics Announces The Completion Of The Acquisition Of Its Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility & Commencement Of Long-Term Strategic Partnership With Fujifilm

04/04/22, 8:01 PM
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Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRA), a leader in T-cell immunotherapy, leveraging its novel allogeneic EBV T-cell platform to develop transformative therapies for patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation (Fujifilm), has completed the acquisition of Atara’s cell therapy manufacturing facility in Thousand Oaks, California for USD 100 million upfront and the commencement of a long-term strategic supply agreement. This partnership and acquisition was first announced in January 2022.

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Atara Biotherapeutics
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Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (@Atarabio) is a pioneer in T-cell immunotherapy leveraging its novel allogeneic EBV T-cell platform to develop transformative therapies for patients with serious diseases including solid tumors, hematologic cancers and autoimmune disease. With our lead program in Phase 3 clinical development and currently under review to support registration in Europe, Atara is the most advanced allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy company and intends to rapidly deliver off-the-shelf treatments to patients with high unmet medical need. Our platform leverages the unique biology of EBV T cells and has the capability to treat a wide range of EBV-associated diseases, or other serious diseases through incorporation of engineered CARs (chimeric antigen receptors) or TCRs (T-cell receptors). Atara is applying this one platform, which does not require TCR or HLA gene editing, to create a robust pipeline including: tab-cel in Phase 3 development for Epstein-Barr virus-driven post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (EBV+ PTLD) and other EBV-driven diseases; ATA188, a T-cell immunotherapy targeting EBV antigens as a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis; and multiple next-generation chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapies for both solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Improving patients’ lives is our mission and we will never stop working to bring transformative therapies to those in need. Atara is headquartered in South San Francisco and our leading-edge research, development and manufacturing facility is based in Thousand Oaks, California. For additional information about the company, please visit atarabio.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.