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CARsgen's Allogeneic CD19/CD20 CAR-T Therapy Administers First Dose in a Patient with Autoimmune Disease
CARsgen Therapeutics Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 2171.HK), a company focused on innovative CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, announces that KJ-C2219, an allogeneic CAR-T therapy targeting CD19/CD20, has administered at the starting dose specified in the clinical protocol to the first patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in an investigator-initiated trial (IIT).
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