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NKGen Biotech, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative autologous and allogeneic natural killer (“NK”) cell therapeutics, today announced that Anita Fletcher, M.D. has been appointed as the National Principal Investigator (“PI”) for its Phase 2a clinical trial of troculeucel, expanded enhanced autologous NK cell therapy, for the treatment of moderate Alzheimer’s disease (NCT06189963). In addition to Dr. Fletcher’s appointment as National PI, NKGen is pleased to announce AdventHealth Research Institute, Neuroscience Research in Orlando will be the first clinical site on the East Coast with the intent of enrolling moderate stage Alzheimer’s Disease (“AD”) patients in the very near term.
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