Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi gifts three pathbreaking innovations, QSIP: India’s own quantum security chip; 25-qubit QPU: India’s first quantum computing chip, powering the future of computation and CAR-T Cell Therapy: India’s 1st indigenous cancer cell therapy developed by Indian innovators with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology

Key Points

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted three innovations to the nation: QSIP, 25-qubit QPU, and CAR-T Cell Therapy.
2. NexCAR19 is India’s first indigenous CAR-T cell therapy developed by ImmunoACT.
3. ImmunoACT received support from DBT and BIRAC.
4. NexCAR19 is the world’s first humanized CAR-T therapy developed in India.
5. Clinical trials of CAR-T therapy have shown promising results in end-stage patients with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia.
6. DBT provided funding to ImmunoAct for setting up a 200L GMP lentiviral vector and plasmid platforms.
7. The GMP grade gene delivery vector can help at least 1000 patients per year for cell and gene therapy.