When six-year-old Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with leukemia that no treatment could stop, Carl June & his team at the University of Pennsylvania believed there was another way.
They reprogrammed her immune cells to recognize & destroy cancer — creating the first successful CAR T-cell therapy.
Today, that breakthrough has given thousands of patients a second chance at life.
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