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Creating the World’s First Off-the-Shelf Viral-Specific Cytomegalovirus T-Lymphocyte Bank

Mitchell Cairo, M.D., Receives $3.5 Million U.S. Army Grant to Develop a Bank of Cryopreserved Viral-Specific Immune Cells to Treat Newborns with Congenital CMV Infection

Mitchell Cairo, M.D.,  professor of pediatrics,  medicine, cell and molecular physiology, and pathology, microbiology, and immunology at New York Medical College, has been awarded a $3.5 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Army to advance a novel treatment for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV)  infection in neonates. The grant will support the development of the world’s first “off-the-shelf” bank of cryopreserved CMV-specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) from universal donors, potentially making this promising cellular therapy available to neonates at hospitals across the United States.

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