Timofeeva, Natalia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6985-3509
Herrera, Breana
Fujiwara, Hitomi
Asami, Tokiko
Endo, Hiroko https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0062-674X
Hatakeyama, Mariko
Nakajima, Fumio
Ohmoto, Hiroshi
Nishioka, Yu
Miyamoto, Kyoko https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3157-2824
Arimura, Akinori
Tantawy, Shady I.
Pinilla-Ibarz, Javier
Coombs, Catherine C.
Jain, Nitin
Sawa, Masaaki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0077-2188
Gandhi, Varsha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-9166
Article History
Received: 30 October 2025
Revised: 13 March 2026
Accepted: 14 April 2026
First Online: 7 May 2026
Competing interests
: HF, TA, HE, M.H, FN, HO, and YN are full-time employees of Carna Biosciences, Inc., and have no competing interests or conflicts of interest. KM is full-time employee of CarnaBio USA, Inc., and has no competing interests or conflicts of interest. AA is a Chief Development Officer and a Board Member of Carna Biosciences, Inc. MS is a Chief Scientific Officer and a Board Member of Carna Biosciences, Inc. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Live vertebrates were not used in this project. Patients with CLL disease participated in this project. Collection and use of patient samples were obtained by informed consent from each participant and protocol to collect patient samples was approved by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Institutional Review Board.