 NantKwest, Inc. Nasdaq: NK, a clinical-stage, natural killer cell-based therapeutics company, today announced the publication of two peer-reviewed manuscripts in the Journal of Immunotherapy of Cancer. These invitro and in-vivo studies, conducted in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute pursuant to a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, support the mechanism and functionality of NantKwests clinical-stage engineered natural killer NK cell lines, haNK and first-in-class PD-L1 t-haNKTM, as effecting anti-tumor activity in treatment-refractory cancer types even in the hypoxemic setting of the solid tumor microenvironment. 