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Paik, Yeeun https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9369-2890
Chang, Lily
Burdi, Allison https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1863-3961
Neal, Carly
Cubitt, Celia C.
Tran, Jennifer
Bhattarai, Bishan https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1263-8554
Morina, Lyra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7361-5407
Marin, Nancy D.
Hwang, Kimberly
Sohn, Hyogon
Wagner, Julia A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2438-3873
Foltz, Jennifer A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9158-3464
Song, Wilbur M.
Schappe, Timothy
Marsala, Lynne
Foster, Mark
Foster, Julia
Berrien-Elliott, Melissa M.
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Colonna, Marco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5222-4987
Yokoyama, Wayne M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0566-7264
Cooper, Megan A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-172X
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Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI102924)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (F30 AI161318)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI131680)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI127752)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (R01CA205239)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (P30CA091842)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (P50CA171963)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (K22CA279495)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (K12CA167540)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32 HL007088)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32 HL007088)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (F31 GM146361)
Edward P. Evans Foundation
Article History
Received: 1 November 2024
Accepted: 8 June 2026
First Online: 18 June 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no commercial or financial conflict of interest related to this work. Unrelated to this work, JAF is an inventor on patent/patent application (WO 2019/152387 and US 63/018,108) licensed to Kiadis Inc. and held/submitted by Nationwide Children’s Hospital on TGF-β–resistant, expanded NK cells. JAF has a monoclonal antibody unrelated to the present work licensed to EMD Millipore. JAF and MMB-E consult for CPRIT on work unrelated to the manuscript. Unrelated to this work, TAF and MMB-E are inventors on patent/patent application (15/983,275, 62/963,971, and PCT/US2019/060005) held by Washington University. Unrelated to this work, TAF and MMB-E have equity interests in Wugen, and TAF has equity interests in Indapta Therapeutics, Orca Bio, consulting for Wugen, and research funding from AI Proteins and Miltenyi/Lentigen. All other authors declare no competing interests.