Hot Atara snags licensing deal with cancer center

Experimental off-the-shelf cell therapies against cancer and long-term viral infections were grabbed by Atara Biotherapeutics Inc. in a licensing deal with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. South San Francisco's Atara (NASDAQ: ATRA) — part of the San Francisco Business Times' life sciences IPO Class of 2014 — said Monday that it licensed three programs already in clinical trials that boost the body's ability to fight Epstein Barr Virus, or EBV, cytomegalovirus and Wilms Tumor 1, or WT1.…
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