Roquefort boasts of NK cells activation in multiple cancer types

6 November 2023
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UK-based biotech Roquefort Therapeutics (LSE: ROQ) has announced that its mesodermal killer (MK) cell program has reached a significant milestone.

The company’s MK cells are a proprietary and novel class of cellular medicine. While MK cells kill cancer cells directly, their more profound effect is the activation of natural killer (NK) cells.

This direct killing of cancer cells and activation of NK cells to increase cytotoxicity have each been demonstrated in validated in vivo models of lymphoma and myeloma.

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