Alaunos Therapeutics Inc (TCRT) is trading 16% higher at $2.8 today. The stock's price action is quickly outrunning it's peers on what is quickly becoming a somewhat pessimistic day for the Health Care sector.

The stock is moving on news that:

Alaunos will present initial results for a lung cancer therapy at a conference next month.

Alaunos Therapeutics Inc has been trading between a 52-week high of $2.8 and a 52-week low of $0.4053. The stock has a market cap of $605 Million.

Ziopharm Oncology is an immuno-oncology company focused on developing end-to-endcost-effective solutions using its non-viralSleeping Beauty platform for TCR and CAR T-cell therapies and immune-stimulating gene therapy with Controlled interleukin 12 (IL-12). The Sleeping Beauty platform genetically modifies T cells with DNA plasmids to express T-cell receptors (TCRs) to target specific antigens in solid tumors and chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to target CD19 in blood cancers with the Company's 3rd generation T-cell manufacturing process, rapid personalized manufacture (RPM). The Sleeping Beauty platform is being advanced in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Eden BioCell.

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As you can imagine, the internet had a few things to say about the price move. Here's a few choice comments from the Reddit Traderverse™:

Final-Cut7591 - 1 upvotes - source
Ticker TCRT Looks like it could make some people money. Vol is above normal. Might be a money maker if it gets pumped.

Uncle_Bulor - 1 upvotes - source
TCRT looks promising