Systems for producing cellular immunotherapeutics and methods of use thereof
AssigneeNortheastern University
InventorShashi K. Murthy
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Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods can be used for the automated production of dendritic cells (DC) from dendritic cell progenitors, such as monocytes obtained from peripheral blood, and the automated generation of immunotherapeutic products from those dendritic cells, all within a closed system. The invention makes it possible to obtain sufficient quantities of a subject's own DC for use in preparing and characterizing vaccines, for activating and characterizing the activation state of the subject's immune response, and to aid in preventing and/or treating cancer or infectious disease.
Claims20
A method for producing an immunotherapeutic product, the method comprising:
- providing cellular material associated with a disease from a patient in a first module of a fluidic system via a fluid inlet port of the first module;
- generating dendritic cells from monocytes of a patient sample in a second module of the fluidic system, the second module being positioned on a support of the fluidic system at an acute angle relative to a horizontal axis of the support when the fluidic system is in a functional orientation such that a fluid outlet port of the second module is retained above a fluid inlet port of the second module;
- flowing processed cellular material from the first module, via a fluid outlet port of the first module, and generated dendritic cells from the second module, via the fluid outlet port of the second module, into a third module of the system, the third module being separately coupled to and in fluidic communication with each of the first and second modules via a first inlet port fluidically coupled to the first module and a separate second inlet port fluidically coupled to the second module;
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- co-culturing the processed cellular material and generated dendritic cells in the third module to produce an immunotherapeutic product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.