Pancella Inc.

$400,000.00 CAD

≈ 5 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2019-2020
Agreement period
January 1, 2020 – January 31, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2019-2020-Q4-947179

Published purpose

panKiller is an extension of panCELLa's proprietary FailSafe. panKiller is covered by the same patent as FailSafe: TOOLS AND METHODS FOR USING CELL DIVISION LOCI TO CONTROL PROLIFERATION OF CELLS. The patent was filed globally in most industrialized nations. panKiller involves the integration of a two-step safety switch. The first step utilizes FailSafe while the next step will utilize a second safety switch, panKiller, in order to eliminate all the therapeutic cells once therapy is complete and the therapeutic cells are no longer required. panKiller will link a suicide gene (iCaspase9) to a gene essential for cell survival (EEF2) in human induced pluripotent stem cells. There are currently no two-step safety switches on the market.

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