{"entity":{"id":"terumo-bct","kind":"company","name":"Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies","aka":[],"tldr":"Maker of the Spectra Optia apheresis system used to collect cells for most CAR-T products, and of the Quantum cell-expansion system.","summary":"Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, based in Lakewood, Colorado, and a subsidiary of Japan's Terumo, makes the Spectra Optia apheresis system used to collect cells for most CAR-T products, and the Quantum cell expansion system. Its portfolio covers apheresis, blood component and cell therapy manufacturing devices. OnCo links it to apheresis and starting-material collection and to closed automated cell therapy manufacturing. Whether apheresis capacity, rather than manufacturing, becomes the limiting step as CAR-T demand grows is the open question its position highlights. The apheresis technology page carries the wider picture.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://www.terumobct.com"}],"tags":["supporting"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["cell-therapy"],"technologies":["apheresis-starting-material","closed-automated-cell-manufacturing"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hq":"Lakewood, CO","country":"US","companyType":"devices","website":"https://www.terumobct.com","investors":[],"funding":[]},"route":"/companies/terumo-bct/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"cell-therapy","kind":"section","name":"Cell Therapy","route":"/fronts/cell-therapy/"}],"technology":[{"id":"apheresis-starting-material","kind":"technology","name":"Apheresis and starting-material collection","route":"/technologies/apheresis-starting-material/"},{"id":"closed-automated-cell-manufacturing","kind":"technology","name":"Closed automated cell-therapy manufacturing","route":"/technologies/closed-automated-cell-manufacturing/"}]}}