{"id":215158,"date":"2025-05-31T21:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cutting-car-t-costs-via-decentralization-vector-alternatives-and-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:08:48","slug":"cutting-car-t-costs-via-decentralization-vector-alternatives-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cutting-car-t-costs-via-decentralization-vector-alternatives-and-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Cutting CAR T Costs via Decentralization, Vector-Alternatives, and Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cutting-car-t-costs-via-decentralization-vector-alternatives-and-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High manufacturing costs are limiting patient access to CAR T cell therapies, according to new research, which indicates that decentralization, vector-free modification technologies, and AI would help make production cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Making CAR T therapies is an expensive business. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0167779923001270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> suggested that producing a single batch can cost anywhere between $170,000 and $220,000, depending on the logistical, processing, and distribution steps involved.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental problem is that CAR T production is not a good fit for centralized manufacturing, according to Martin Bonamino, PhD, leader of the experimental cancer immunotherapy group at Brazil\u2019s National Cancer Institute (INCA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High manufacturing costs are limiting patient access to CAR T cell therapies, according to new research, which indicates that decentralization, vector-free modification technologies, and AI would help make production cheaper. Making CAR T therapies is an expensive business. A recent study suggested that producing a single batch can cost anywhere between $170,000 and $220,000, depending [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}