Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is an attractive new therapeutic approach for treating various cancers. ACT has recently demonstrated a high degree of efficacy when treating patients with hematological malignancies. However, to date, no effective Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) T cell therapy exists for solid tumors. Researchers in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) have created a new CAR format that is available for licensing and further co-development. This new format uses a specific promoter and signal peptide in a specific order allowing for increased efficiency of CAR T therapy. The inventors found that there was an increased therapeutic effect when using their proprietary (anti-glypican 3 [GPC3]) hYP7 antibody in this format. Additionally, the inventors are exploring the use of this new CAR T format in conjunction with other antibodies against multiple other cancer antigens, including mesothelin and glypican 2 (GPC2).