Huji Xu is part of\u00a0Nature<\/i>\u2019s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.<\/p>\n

Huji Xu\u2019s team was on tenterhooks after delivering the first treatments. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t sleep, because all these cases are very sick patients,\u201d says Xu, a rheumatologist at the Naval Medical University in Shanghai, China, who published the first results of a\u00a0revolutionary cellular therapy for autoimmune diseases<\/a>\u00a0in September (X. Wang\u00a0et al<\/i>.\u00a0Cell\u00a0<\/i>187<\/b>, 4890\u20134904; 2024<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Liz Parrish MBA<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2022 C<\/span><\/span><\/span>EO of BioViva USA Inc:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Two weeks after receiving engineered immune cells, the first patient \u2014 a woman with a debilitating disorder characterized by extreme muscle weakness \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lizlparrish\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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