Cell Design Labs
Cell Design Labs, Inc. was a biotherapeutics company based at 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California, that engineered immune cells into "smart, living therapies" for cancer and other diseases. Its platform was a toolkit of proprietary molecular modules — including synthetic Notch (synNOTCH) receptors and programmable, combinatorial-antigen CAR-T circuits developed out of Wendell Lim's lab at UCSF — deployed inside an immune cell to program its specificity and control its killing force, so a therapy recognizes a disease signature and neutralizes it without harming adjacent tissue. The company ran an exclusive research collaboration with Kite Pharma (announced June 2016) on molecular on/off switches for CAR T-cell immunotherapies, and was acquired by Gilead Sciences, announced 7 December 2017. Cell Design Labs no longer operates as an independent company: celldesignlabs.com is dead (DNS resolves to a parked address, HTTP times out; the archived site shows an expired Squarespace subscription). It published no developer program, API, documentation, SDK, or GitHub organization, and none exists to enrich.
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Cell Design Labs is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
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