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What Could Come After CAR-T? Cue Is Betting On Selective Biologics

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Emerging Company Profile: Cue Biopharma, a young biotech formed on the basis of research from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is developing biologics engineered to selectively modulate disease-relevant T-cells to treat cancer – technology it has called the "next wave" in cancer immunotherapy.

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Cue Biopharma execs boast cell therapy biologics for cancer

Cue Biopharma Inc., a company developing biologics targeting tumor specific T-cell receptors (TCRs), believes its technology could represent the next wave of cancer immunotherapy – besting even novel chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies that are yet to reach the market. Still, while Cue is excited about its technology based on promising preclinical data, lots of uncertainties remain around the mechanisms of action for biologic cell therapies.

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