The daring doctor behind a world-first treatment for autoimmune disease
Published in General News, People.
Huji Xu is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
Huji Xu’s team was on tenterhooks after delivering the first treatments. “We couldn’t sleep, because all these cases are very sick patients,” says Xu, a rheumatologist at the Naval Medical University in Shanghai, China, who published the first results of a revolutionary cellular therapy for autoimmune diseases in September (X. Wang et al. Cell 187, 4890–4904; 2024).
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Two weeks after receiving engineered immune cells, the first patient — a woman with a debilitating disorder characterized by extreme muscle weakness — told nurses that she had regained enough strength to lift her arms and comb her hair. Two other recipients, both men, with a different condition, said that their symptoms began fading within days.
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