PETRI DISH PERSPECTIVES
PETRI DISH PERSPECTIVES
Manead Khin
Episode 70: Cellares
21 minutes Posted Aug 27, 2026 at 10:00 am.
What Makes Cell Therapy Manufacturing So Difficult?
Founding Story
Cell Shuttle: Turning a Cell Therapy Factory Into a Machine
Big Validation: BMS, the $380 Million Deal, and the Road to Commercial Scale
Then Came the BMS Breakup
Competition: Cellares Isn't Alone in Trying to Industrialize Cell Therapy
Regulatory Piece and Why the FDA's Reaction Matters
What's Next for Cellares?
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore Cellares, the biotech company trying to solve one of the biggest and least discussed challenges in cell therapy: how do you manufacture these complex, personalized medicines at commercial scale? From CAR-T to gene-edited cell therapies, the science may be advancing rapidly, but manufacturing remains labor-intensive, expensive, and difficult to scale. Cellares believes the answer is automation. We’ll break down the origins...