How to build CAR–M: Carl June pro­tégé and his biotech pub­lish first ev­i­dence in Na­ture Biotech­nol­o­gy

Michael Klichin­sky joined the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia for his PhD at the height of the rev­o­lu­tion.

It was 2014, and though the CAR-T ther­a­py that would make Penn pro­fes­sor Carl June fa­mous would not be ap­proved for four years, it had al­ready caused head­line-grab­bing re­mis­sions in a small hand­ful of pa­tients. Klichin­sky turned down of­fers from oth­er elite uni­ver­si­ties to take a spot be­tween June’s lab and col­league Saar Gill’s lab.

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