CRGX vs PCRX Comparison

Cargo Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company positioned to advance next generation, potentially curative cell therapies for cancer patients. It programs, platforms, and manufacturing are designed to directly address the limitations of approved chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies. Its product includes CRG-023, an investigational tri-specific CAR T designed to address several known causes of relapse associated with existing CAR T-cell therapies such as loss of tumor antigen expression, loss of co-stimulation (e.g., via CD58/CD2 signaling) and T cell exhaustion. CRG-023 is designed to target the B-cell lineage antigens (CD19, CD20, CD22) via tri-cistronic expression of three distinct CARs from a single lentiviral vector.

Pacira BioSciences Inc is a provider of non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions dedicated to advancing and improving outcomes for healthcare practitioners and their patients. The company's commercialized non-opioid treatments: EXPAREL a long-acting, local analgesic currently approved for postsurgical pain management; ZILRETTA, an extended-release, intra-articular, corticosteroid injection indicated for the management of osteoarthritis; and iovera, a novel, handheld device for delivering immediate, long-acting, drug-free pain control using precise, controlled doses of cold temperature to a targeted nerve. In addition, it is developing PCRX-201 (enekinragene inzadenovec), a novel gene therapy vector platform for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee.