Ke Liu

Chief Development Officer Marengo Therapeutics

As Chief Development Officer of Marengo Therapeutics, Ke Liu joins Marengo with over 20 years of experience in the field of oncology, immuno-oncology, and cell and gene therapy, most recently serving as Senior Vice President and led the key regulatory activities at Sana Biotechnology. Prior to Sana, he spent more than 17 years working at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where he held leadership roles at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), and the Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE). Ke has made major contributions to the field of Oncology and led the clinical evaluations and approvals of key first-in-class cancer therapeutics over the past decade, including checkpoint inhibitors, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, T cell receptor (TCR) modified T cells, genome-edited products, neoantigen-based therapies, adoptive T cell therapies, oncolytic viral therapy, dendritic cell therapy, and combinations of these immune-oncologic therapeutics with checkpoint inhibitors and other agents.

Seminars

Wednesday 20th May 2026
Activating T-Cells Through Novel TCR-Based Platforms to Overcome Resistance in Solid Tumors
10:00 am
  •  Introducing the first-in-class STAR platform that selectively activates T-cells via the variable beta chain
  • Demonstrating feasibility and safety of this novel mechanism with encouraging preliminary clinical data
  • Achieving pan-tumor activity across seven solid tumor types, and HLA-agnostic TCR activation to broaden patient access and redefine therapeutic strategies

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