Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE) announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company's investigational new drug (IND) application for ProTmune, a programmed cellular immunotherapy consisting of donor-sourced mobilized peripheral blood cells which have been functionally modulated using two small molecules. The IND is now active and Fate Therapeutics plans to initiate a multi-center, randomized, controlled Phase 1/2 clinical trial in adult patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing mobilized peripheral blood (mPB) hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in mid-2016.