Targeting cardiac fibrosis with engineered T cells
Haig Aghajanian, Toru Kimura, Joel G. Rurik, Aidan S. Hancock, Michael S. Leibowitz, Li Li, John Scholler, James Monslow, Albert Lo, Wei Han, Tao Wang, Kenneth Bedi, Michael P. Morley, Ricardo Linares Saldana, Nikhita A. Bolar, Kendra McDaid, Charles-Antoine Assenmacher, Cheryl L. Smith, Dagmar Wirth, Carl H. June, Kenneth B. Margulies, Rajan Jain, Ellen Pure, Steven M. Albelda, Jonathan A. Epstein
September, 2019
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.

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