Later this year, Umoja Biopharma will open 77,000 square feet of a 146,000 square foot manufacturing facility at the Colorado Technology Center in Louisville. Although Umoja is only in the early clinical stage of developing CAR-T therapeutics, the company got an early start on creating a facility to make the lentiviral vectors that it will need for clinical studies. Here, Ryan Crisman, PhD, co-founder and CTO of Umoja Biopharma, describes the thinking behind that decision.