Throughout 2025, FCOED is recognizing and celebrating Frederick County’s Manufacturers. Manufacturing in Frederick County, Maryland covers a wide range of products from a variety of industries. Join us every Tuesday and Thursday as we get to know our Top 50 Manufacturers.
Kite, a Gilead Company
9021 Bennett Creek Blvd.
Frederick, MD 21704
Number of Employees in Frederick County: 489
Kite, a biopharmaceutical company, manufactures CAR T-cell therapies that is an innovative treatment option used to treat certain types of blood cancers. They use state-of-the-art and proprietary technology during this highly specialized, “made-to-order” process which involves engineering a patient’s own white blood cells with a protein before the cells get reinfused back into the patient to find and target (kill) the cancer cells. Approximately 70 different people work on one single patient batch. Unlike traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, every batch is uniquely made for each patient.