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One of the ways tumors get around chemotherapy is ‘don’t eat me’ signals — membrane proteins that cloak cells, keeping phagocytic macrophages at bay In 2016, Irving Weissman’s lab at Stanford spun out Forty Seven, a biotech startup with a set of monoclonals against one of these don’t-eat-me signals, the eponymous CD47. Just four years later, Gilead snatched up Forty Seven to add anti-CD47 monoclonal antibodies to their anticancer armamentarium, but so far, their and others’ anti-CD47 monoclonals haven’t performed in the clinic. Now, Amira Barkal, a PhD graduate from Weissman’s lab, has pushed out another startup, Pheast Therapeutics, targeting a new don’t-eat-me pathway, CD24 and its partner, Siglec-10.