“…In the last decade effective methods for clinical grade purification and expansion of donor NK cells from PB and PBSC have been established successfully in order to obtain large numbers of NK cells ( Iyengar et al, 2003 ; Koehl et al, 2005 , 2013 ; Miller et al, 2005 ; Sutlu et al, 2010 ; Leung, 2011 ; Leung et al, 2014 ). In this respect, feasibility and safety of NK cell therapies has been shown in several phase I/II trials performing both the adoptive transfer of donor NK cells without transplantation ( Miller et al, 2005 ) or donor-derived allogeneic NK cells post-SCT ( Koehl et al, 2004 ; Stern et al, 2013 ; Leung et al, 2014 ). Depending on the source and the protocol, more immature, such as polyfunctional CD56 dim KIR + CD62L + or mature terminal effector CD56 dim KIR + NKG2A - CD62L - NK cells are available for the use in clinical studies ( Luetke-Eversloh et al, 2013 ).…”