Targeting cardiac fibrosis with engineered T cells

Abstract

Adoptive transfer of CAR T cells against the fibroblast marker FAP reduces cardiac fibrosis and restores function after cardiac injury in mice, providing proof-of-principle for the development of immunotherapeutic treatments for cardiac disease.

Publication
Nature
Ricardo Linares Saldana
Ricardo Linares Saldana
MD PhD

My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.