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Maday Galeana Figueroa

Medical College of WisconsinORCID 0009-0004-8581-6355Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Preventing trogocytosis by cathepsin B inhibition augments CAR T cell function

Kenneth A. Dietze, Kiet Nguyen, Aashli Pathni, F. Fazekas, Wenxiang Sun, Ethan Rosati, Jillian M. Baker, Maday Galeana Figueroa, Etse Gebru, Daniel Yamoah, Rediet Mulatu, Alexander Wang, Aaron P. Rapoport, David Henry Lum, Xiaoxuan Fan, , Tim Luetkens

This study shows that inhibiting cathepsin B prevents CAR T cell fratricide and exhaustion by blocking trogocytosis, improving CAR T cell persistence and anti-tumor activity.

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy · Apr 22, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering