Thermogenesis holdings closes joint venture agreement with healthbanks biotech (usa) to form immunecyte life sciences

Thermogenesis holdings, inc. announced that the company has closed on its joint venture agreement with healthbanks biotech (usa) inc. the joint venture, called immunecyte life sciences, inc. has been formed in order to commercialize thermogenesis' proprietary cell processing platform, car-txpress™, for use in immune cell banking as well as for cell-based contract development and manufacturing services (cmo/cdmo). under the terms of the previously announced joint venture agreement, immunecyte will initially be owned 80% by healthbanks biotech and 20% by thermogenesis. in addition to contributing to immunecyte exclusive rights to use thermogenesis' proprietary cell processing technology for the immune cell banking business and non-exclusive rights for other cell-based contract development and manufacturing services, thermogenesis has contributed its clinical development assets to immunecyte, divesting these programs in order to focus exclusively on the device business. immunecyte, which is expected to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter of 2019, will be among the first immune cell banks in the u.s. and offer customers the ability to preserve younger, healthier and uncontaminated immune cells for future potential use in dendritic and chimeric antigen receptor (car-t) cell therapies, in a gmp compliant processing environment.
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