On November 4, 2019 Tmunity Therapeutics, Inc., a private clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on saving and improving lives by delivering the full potential of next-generation T-cell immunotherapy, reported it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Oncora Medical to access Oncora’s proprietary real-world data platform to support the design of future clinical programs with cell therapy (Press release, Tmunity Therapeutics, NOV 4, 2019, View Source [SID1234550262]).

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Oncora brings to this collaboration a suite of intuitive analytics software that collects and deploys real-world clinical data that can be used to drive better decision making and treatment options and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Tmunity brings expertise in clinical oncology and clinical trial design, regulatory strategy and cell therapy. Together, this collaboration has the potential to innovate the way clinical trials for cell therapy are executed to bring treatments to patients more efficiently. Tmunity will leverage Oncora’s data and analytics capabilities to refine, customize and validate a real-world evidence strategy. Tmunity hopes to validate the strategy in a clinical program selected from its highly innovative pipeline.

"Partnering with Oncora Medical to utilize real-world data in clinical development puts Tmunity at the forefront of innovation. This project has the potential to help us more effectively design and execute our clinical trials to advance the next-generation of CAR-T therapies," said Usman "Oz" Azam, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tmunity. "We are excited to begin our relationship with Oncora Medical to revolutionize the way clinical trials are designed with the ultimate goal of reducing the time to deliver targeted T-cell therapies to patients in need."

"We believe that use of real-world data and evidence has the potential to change the way cancer therapies are developed and to further personalize outcome predictions that will guide treatment decisions," said Oncora Medical co-founder and CEO, David Lindsay. "We hope our partnership with Tmunity will innovate the way clinical trials are designed and thereby, to bring important cancer treatments to patients more efficiently."