Kite To Acquire Tmunity Therapeutics To Pursue Next Generation CAR T-Cell Therapy Advancements In Cancer
“Kite has demonstrated an ability to globally scale cell therapy and address the unique challenges and opportunities that cell therapy represents, which are quite different in material ways than traditional pharmaceutical or biotech approaches,” said Tmunity Founder Carl June, MD, who is also the Richard W. Vague Professor of Immunotherapy in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and director of Penn’s Center for Cellular Immunotherapies. “Kite’s singular focus on cell therapy makes them unique and particularly nimble.”
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