The role of flow cytometry in advanced therapy medicinal products

Cell & Gene Therapy Insights 2020; 6(10), 1521–1526

10.18609/cgti.2020.166

Published: 20 November 2020
Expert Insight
Theo Nastos, PhD

Cell therapy is a fast-growing, highly advanced field of medicine that includes well-established immune therapies for infection and cancer treatment, as well as newer cell therapies for regenerating diseased tissue. Flow cytometry-based assays serve as valuable resource for multiple aspects of the development of advanced cellular therapeutics ranging from target identification and characterization to the evaluation of responses in a clinical setting. The integrity of the samples and the appropriate selection and characterization of the reagents used in these assays are challenging. These concerns taken together with flow-based technologies make the validation of flow cytometry assays a challenging endeavour.