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Candel Therapeutics partners with UPenn to study viral immunotherapy and CAR T-cell therapy

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Candel Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing viral immunotherapies, formed a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania to study the impact of novel viral immunotherapies based on Candel’s proprietary enLIGHTEN Discovery Platform to strengthen the effects of Penn’s CAR-T cell therapies in solid tumor models.

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