Cellares and TScan Sign Agreement to Evaluate Automated Production of TSC-101
Cellares and TScan Therapeutics announced an agreement to evaluate automated clinical manufacturing of TSC-101, TScan's lead TCR-T therapy candidate for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes, through a comprehensive technical and operational assessment of Cellares' automated manufacturing and testing platforms. TSC-101 is designed to treat residual disease and prevent relapse in patients with AML and MDS undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. The therapy candidate uses a gene modification approach to engineer T cells from a healthy donor into a patient-specific cell therapy product. As TScan advances TSC-101 towards a pivotal trial, which is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2026, the Company is evaluating Cellares' automated manufacturing platform as a scalable and economical path to future commercial demand. Under the agreement, Cellares will automate the TSC-101 manufacturing and testing processes on the Cell Shuttle, its end-to-end manufacturing platform, and the Cell Q, its automated quality control and release testing system. These closed-system, fully automated workflows are designed to reduce process variability, minimize labor intensity, and enable consistent execution across runs and geographies, delivering the manufacturing economics and reliability that large-scale commercial production requires.