We’re revolutionizing the logistics of personalized medicine
Our approach is different
Others have tried to bank immune cells for future cell therapies but we are taking a new tack:
Patients do not pay
We collect, process and store cells so that they can be used for a real, future cell therapy option
We do not favor one cell therapy approach over another. Our aim is to provide as many choices for the patient as possible.
Our solution involves three stages
1. Informed Consent
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If you have been recently diagnosed with cancer, discuss Achieve Clinics with your oncologist immediately to see if our service can help you.
Patients provide informed consent so our trusted partners can access health records and propose additional testing, if necessary, to confirm eligibility for a future cell therapy trial in our program.
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Achieve Clinics will be launching in Seattle, so oncologists based in the Pacific Northwest will have the first opportunity to discuss Achieve Clinics with their patients.
In the beginning, only patients with very specific indications who appear likely to meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria for a specific trial can be considered for our service.
Once we can publically disclose the specifics of our first trials, we will advertise it to the medical community and will welcome your engagement.
Feel free to reach out to us now to make sure you’re in the loop.
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Achieve Clinics does not bank the cells of all cancer patients, just the ones we think may qualify for your trial.
If you are a clinical stage autologous cell therapy company, your first step is to ensure that the Achieve Clinics Process is included in your IND application so that you can accept the cells we are collecting from patients. Please contact us to learn more.
The next step is to sign a customer agreement with Achieve Clinics in which you agree to consider the patients in our roster for enrollment into your trial.
2. Cell collection and storage
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If our team of medical professionals agree that you are a good fit for one of our cell therapies, we will invite you to undergo a cell collection procedure called apheresis.
Check out this youtube video to learn more about apheresis. This procedure is so safe that healthy people like the person in this video undergo the procedure voluntarily to donate immune cells for someone else. At Achieve Clinics, patients are the recipients of their own cells.
Once we have your cells, we store them safely off-site until you need them for a cell therapy. If you don’t end up needing the cells we collected, then we ask for your consent to provide them to the research community.
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At this point, we have determined that the patient is a good potential fit for a future cell therapy in our program but we still have to coordinate with you to ensure their apheresis is compatible with the standard of care you’re providing.
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Our cell therapy trial partners will have access to a HIPAA-compliant roster of the patients we are accessing, in real-time.
We imagine it will be quite exciting for your team to watch patients get queued up for enrollment. With access to their EHR, we will all be able to see the moment when they meet your eligibility criteria.
3. Trial enrollment
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This is the moment that Achieve Clinics has been working so hard for: When a patient like you gets a cell therapy faster than ever before, which was made from cells undamaged by chemo.
The cell therapy trial will work with us to determine which patients we bank should be enrolled into their trial. If you give consent, we will connect them to you and celebrate!
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Once a trial sponsor flags a patient for accrual, we will contact you and the patient to determine if proceeding is the right choice. We look forward to giving you the news!
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Once the patient and their oncologist confirm interest in your trial and provide the requisite consent, we will connect you to them to initiate the enrollment process.
Once the paperwork is complete, we will send the cryopreserved cells to your manufacturing site at the time that works best for you and the patient.
Payment to Achieve Clinics will be due in accordance with the terms of our customer agreement.
FAQs
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As of September 2024, we are proud to begin supporting patients with colorectal, gastric and certain neuroendocrine cancers.
Soon we will be able to support pediatric ALL patients as well in our trial at Texas Childrens.
We expect to support many more patients in the near future.
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Achieve Clinics aspires to be a true decentralized clinical site network , meaning that it should not matter where patients live. This will require us to operate in many major cities throughout the United States.
Today, we can accommodate collections in many cities nationwide thanks to our relationships with Blood Centers of America and Vitalant. Contact us to learn more!
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Achieve Clinics is a type of business called a platform, which just means that we make money by facilitating a valuable connection between two parties. Some platforms charge both parties but in our case, we don’t - the drugmakers pay more so patients pay nothing. Isn’t that nice for a change?
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RIght now, no. We are laser focused on helping the most vulnerable populations. Our priority is to partner with as many clinical stage cell therapy companies as possible, as fast as possible, so we can offer the most options to the widest swath of patients.