Benzinga | May 6, 2021 04:15PM EDT

CRISPR Therapeutics and Nkarta Announce Global Collaboration to Develop Gene-Edited Cell Therapies for Cancer

-Collaboration brings together breakthrough gene editing technology and leading natural killer (NK) cell and T cell discovery, development, and manufacturing capabilities-

-Companies to co-develop and co-commercialize two chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) NK cell product candidates, one targeting CD70, and a product candidate combining NK and T cells (NK+T)-

-Nkarta obtains a license to CRISPR gene editing technology for use in its own engineered NK cell therapy products-

-Nkarta to host conference call today at 4:30 p.m. ET