Tech Transfer Roundup: Tmunity Targets Pediatric Glioma With UCSF-Discovered TCR Therapy
Executive Summary
Bayer will collaborate with start-up Hope Medicine to develop antibody therapies targeting the PRL receptor. WARF and Sanford Burnham Prebys partner on translational research.
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