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ReviewNature cancer2025

The landscape of CAR-engineered innate immune cells for cancer immunotherapy.

Ourania Tsahouridis, Max Xu, Feifei Song, Barbara Savoldo, Gianpietro Dotti

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Review in Nature cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. CAR-engineered neutrophils derived from induced pluripotent stem cells: a new frontier in cellular immunotherapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  2. Trogocytosis in cancer immunity and cellular immunotherapy: mechanisms, therapeutic challenges, and translational opportunities.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  10. Activation of FCGR2A enhances the antitumor efficacy of hPSC-derived CAR-M.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ourania Tsahouridis *Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0621-6753
Max Xu *Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Feifei SongLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8866-1270
Barbara SavoldoLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Gianpietro DottiLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. gdotti@med.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2639-8526

Funding

CANCER CELL BIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32CA071341 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CHANNING J. DER, Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta · 1996 to 2026
$5.0M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA071341U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01-CA243543U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01-CA247436U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01-CA247497U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01-CA256898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have improved the cure rate and quality of life of patients with lymphoid malignancies but have yet to demonstrate clinical benefits in solid tumors. Thus, several CAR-engineering strategies are currently being explored to overcome the functional limitations and the high cost of CAR T cells. Key among these are CAR-engineered innate immune cells, such as natural killer (NK) cells, NK T (NKT) cells, γδ T cells and macrophages. In this Review, we discuss the potential and limitations of efforts to develop and use innate immune CAR-engineered cells for cancer immunotherapy.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateImmunotherapyImmunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenAnimalsHumansKiller Cells, NaturalMacrophagesReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

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