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CytoMed Therapeutics Announces Novel First-In-Human Clinical Trial Collaborations with Renowned and Prestigious Hospital Partner to Advance Its Off-The-Shelf Donor-Derived Gamma Delta T Cells Allogeneic Technology to Treat Cancers in Malaysia
SINGAPORE, Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CytoMed Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: GDTC) (“CytoMed” or the “Company”), a Singapore-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing its proprietary technologies to develop novel affordable donor-derived cell-based immunotherapies for the treatment of a broad range of cancers, including both blood and solid tumors, today announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (“UMMC”
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