In this episode my guest is Jason Bock PhD.  Jason is the CEO of CTMC / A joint venture between Resilience and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

• Jason Bock has been in biotech and biopharma for over 20 years, mostly in Biologics development.
• He founded Ctmc, a technology platform to industrialize cell therapies and bring them into the MD Anderson Clinic.
• Ctmc is a joint venture between MD Anderson and National Resilience.
• Ctmc partners with preclinical biotech, MD Anderson faculty, and Factus to provide a capital-efficient model to bring impactful single dose curative treatments to patients.
• Ctmc has filed three INDs in the first six months since it spun off on novel cell therapies brought into the clinic.
• Ctmc has progressed on the seven clinical studies that it supports.
• Ctmc recently announced that it was the recipient of a $9.1 million grant to help develop cell therapy platforms and improved ways of making these cell therapies.
• Jason is inspired by the patients and patient-centricity. He is concerned about the challenges, logistical and manufacturing challenges with autologous cell therapy. What excites him is the potential to transform healthcare and be single-dose curative treatments.