Next-Generation CAR-Ts Tackle First-Generation Safety, Solid Tumor Challenges
Executive Summary
New strategies to overcome safety, solid tumor and other challenges associated with CAR-T therapies – and some early clinical data for patients treated with Poseida's, Celyad's and Autolus' novel products – were featured at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting.
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