Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc., a pioneer in T-cell immunotherapy, leveraging its novel allogeneic EBV T-cell platform to develop transformative therapies for patients with serious diseases including solid tumors, hematologic cancers and autoimmune disease, reported the grant of an aggregate of 229,931 restricted stock units of Atara’s common stock to 47 newly hired employees and stock options to purchase an aggregate of 206,167 shares of Atara’s common stock to 15 such newly hired employees.