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Update on recent acquisition - CytoMed Therapeutics expands into auto-immune diseases building on its recent cord blood bank acquisition
SINGAPORE, Aug. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CytoMed Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: GDTC) (“CytoMed” or “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 tumours, is pleased to announce it has successfully expanded clinical-scale natural killer (“NK”) cells from cord blood units th
About this update from Cytomed Therapeutics Limited
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