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ScaleReady announces multiple G-Rex® Grants have been awarded to investigators at University of Minnesota's Center for Genome Engineering
ScaleReady, in collaboration with Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) and CellReady, today announced that three investigators at the University of Minnesota's Center for Genome Engineering have been awarded $665,000 of G-Rex® Grant funding.
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[{"type":"text","content":"ST. PAUL, Minn., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ScaleReady, in collaboration with Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) and CellReady, today announced that three investigators at the University of Minnesota's Center for Genome Engineering have been awarded $665,000 of G-Rex® Grant funding.","length":320,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Dr. Branden Moriarity, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Co-Director of Center for Genome Engineering, Co-Director of the Genome Engineering Shared Resource, and Member of the Masonic Cancer Center, was awarded a $300,000 G-Rex Grant to support technology transfer, process development and qualification runs for a novel hyper-functional Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Natural Killer (NK) cell therapy for the treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in a Phase 1 clinical trial.","length":511,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Dr. Beau Webber, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Co-Director of the Genome Engineering Shared Resource, Member of the Center for Genome Engineering, and Member of the Masonic Cancer Center, was awarded a $240,000 G-Rex Grant to support preclinical development of a novel tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy for the treatment of various solid tumors.","length":377,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Dr. Joseph Skeate, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, was awarded a $125,000 G-Rex Grant to support process development and optimization of a G-Rex® centric manufacturing processes for production of a TPP1 expressing T cells therapy for the treatment of Batten Disease, a group of rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorders that typically begin in childhood.","length":376,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""We are highly appreciative of receiving significant G-Rex Grant funding that will improve G-Rex centric manufacturing for our unique cell and gene therapy drug products. The willingness of our Minnesota neighbors, Wilson Wolf and Bio-Techne, to allocate financial resources to our University of Minnesota cell and gene therapy (CGT) programs and the CGT field as a whole is greatly appreciated," said Dr. Branden Moriarity.","length":434,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""The state of Minnesota has a long history of pioneering adoptive c...