Cell Design Labs Envisions Robot Control of Tomorrow's CAR-T Therapies
Executive Summary
Emerging Company Profile: San Francisco startup aligned with Kite Pharma believes T-cells may be programmed to reversibly activate and deactivate, greatly improving specificity, efficacy and safety of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies.
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