Would you pay $93,000 USD to extend your life by four months and would you relocate to one of the handful of treatment centers in the US for that therapy? Questions like this continue to propagate. Innovative and effective cell therapy treatments are advancing in the R&D pipeline, but costs and logistical challenges have been limiting the commercial success of the select therapies that have been approved. The considerations on the road to commercialization for cell therapy take on a higher level of complexity than those for biopharmaceuticals. For example, cold chain logistics moves from refrigerated cases of finished product handled by a distributor to shipping individual cryogenic units of sale. Additionally, new considerations come into play like administration through a medical device or a pre-conditioning treatment that are as much part of the process as the operations in a controlled manufacturing facility.

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