INTERVIEW: Juno CEO Hans Bishop On The CAR-T Learning Curve

Juno Therapeutics President and CEO Hans Bishop spoke with Scrip about the company's CAR-T strategy, its short-lived clinical hold and Novartis's recent cell therapy business shift.

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Juno Therapeutics Inc. President and CEO Hans Bishop • Source: Juno Therapeutics Inc.

Immuno-oncology drug developers are generating a flood of new information about how to safely boost the immune system's ability to fight cancer and Juno Therapeutics Inc. is standing in front of the firehose trying to make sense of the data.

Juno's President and CEO Hans Bishop said in an interview with Scrip that one of the company's goals is to...

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