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This project was supported in part by a grant from the Gabrielle’s Angel Cancer Research Foundation as well as grants from the National Institutes of Health (CA155521, CA210087, CA068458, CA095426, CA185301, and P30 CA16058). This project was also supported in part by an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant RSG-14-243-01-LIB and a grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The authors are grateful to David Lucas and Donna Bucci at the Leukemia Tissue Bank Shared Resource of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and James Cancer Hospital for providing AML patient samples.
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Chen, L., Mao, H., Zhang, J. et al. Targeting FLT3 by chimeric antigen receptor T cells for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 31, 1830–1834 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2017.147
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