The companies will partner on the use of Vycellix's RNA immunomodulator VY-M for immunodiscovery cell and gene therapy with Avectas' Solupore cell engineering platform to address the current limitations of cell-based therapies and the need to accelerate manufacturing processes, reduce manufacturing costs, and improve patient outcomes.

Vycellix and Avectas also are currently collaborating with NextGenNK, a newly established competence center for the development of next-generation natural killer cell-based cancer immunotherapies based at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.