Cell therapy partnership between Bay Area biotechs offers hope to cancer patients

Imagine a world in which physicians can confidently cure cancer. Two Bay Area life sciences companies are working together to make this vision a reality. Atara Biotherapeutics Inc., founded in 2012, is developing a pipeline of cell therapies to treat various types of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Bayer is licensing Atara’s cutting-edge cell therapies that t arget certain types of aggressive tumors including mesothelioma, pancreatic, ovarian and non-small-cell lung cancer. “With cancer therapies,…
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