Lab of medical miracles at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

It's no secret we live in a medical mecca of sorts. People come to Northeast Ohio from all over the world to access our facilities.

But now, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has opened a rare type of laboratory not found in many places. It's a lab that may provide the next big breakthrough in cancer research and bring some of the brightest minds to Northeast Ohio.

It’s called the Wesley Center for Immunotherapy at the UH Seidman Cancer Center. It made the existing lab three times bigger and 3News got an exclusive tour of the high tech parts before the scientists moved in to work.

For decades, UH Seidman Cancer Center has led the way in cutting-edge immunotherapy research and has been doing cellular therapy trials since 1995. The existing lab opened in 2005 as part of the Case Western Reserve National Center for Regenerative Medicine consortium, which includes UH.

Since then, the Cellular Therapy Lab has manufactured 439 cellular products for UH and other hospitals in the region and nationally, treating 134 patients with immunotherapy clinical trials.

UH currently has many clinical trials open at the cell therapy facility which generates CAR T, NK cell and other cell-based therapies.

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