Cell Therapy News Volume 22.26 | Jul 19 2021

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    Vol. 22.26 – 19 July, 2021
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    Long-Term Activity of Tandem CD19/CD20 CAR Therapy in Refractory/Relapsed B-Cell Lymphoma: A Single-Arm, Phase I–II Trial

    In this open-label, single-arm Phase I/II trial, 87 patients with recurrent/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma received an infusion at doses of 0.5 × 106–8 × 106 TanCAR7 T cells per kilogram of body weight after conditioning chemotherapy.
    [Leukemia]

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    Generation of Glucocorticoid-Resistant SARS-CoV-2 T Cells for Adoptive Cell Therapy

    Scientists expanded SARS-CoV-2 T cells from the peripheral blood of COVID-19-recovered donors and non-exposed controls using different culture conditions.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Dexamethasone Enhances the Lung Metastasis of Breast Cancer via a PI3K-SGK1-CTGF Pathway

    Ligation of dexamethasone and glucocorticoid receptor on tumor cells activated the PI3K signaling pathway and upregulated serum glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1 (SGK1)  expression, and then increased the expression of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) through Nedd4l-Smad2.
    [Oncogene]

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    Trophoblast Glycoprotein Is a Marker for Efficient Sorting of Ventral Mesencephalic Dopaminergic Precursors Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Trophoblast glycoprotein-targeted cell sorting enriched FOXA2+LMX1A+ ventral mesencephalic dopaminergic (vmDA) precursors and helped attain efficient behavioral recovery of rodent Parkinson’s disease models with increased numbers of TH+, NURR1+, and PITX3+ vmDA neurons in the grafts.
    [npj Parkinson’s Disease]

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    Impact of Gut Fungal and Bacterial Communities on the Outcome of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

    Investigators evaluated bacterial and fungal composition of fecal microbiota at day zero of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.
    [Mucosal Immunology]

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    Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis-Like Toxicity (carHLH) after CD19-Specific CAR T-Cell Therapy

    Researchers reported the development of carHLH in 14·8% of pediatric patients and young adults treated with CD19-specific CAR T-cell therapy with carHLH, occurring most commonly in those with high disease burden.
    [British Journal of Haematology]

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    Cell Therapy in Patients with COVID-19 Using Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A Phase I Clinical Trial

    Scientists assessed the safety and efficacy of injecting intravenous Wharton’s jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in patients with COVID-19 as a treatment. Five patients with severe COVID-19 were treated with Wharton’s jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cells.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    Pulmonary Transplantation of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT)-Transgenic Macrophages Provides a Source of Functional Human AAT In Vivo

    The authors investigated the pulmonary transplantation of macrophages transgenic for alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) as a potential therapy for AAT deficiency-associated lung pathology.
    [Gene Therapy]

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    Enhanced Cellular Engraftment of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Spheroids by Using Nanosheets as Scaffolds

    Researchers showed an effective method for transplantation of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell spheroids onto skin wounds in order to efficiently cure refractory ulcers.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Engineered Mucoperiosteal Scaffold for Cleft Palate Regeneration towards the Non-Immunogenic Transplantation

    The authors set up a new natural scaffold derived from a decellularized porcine mucoperiosteum, engineered by an innovative micro-perforation procedure based on Quantum Molecular Resonance and then subjected to in vitro recellularization with human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    CRISPR-Based Diagnostics

    Scientists provide a rundown of the rapidly expanding toolbox for CRISPR-based diagnostics, in particular the various assays, preamplification strategies and readouts, and highlight their main applications in the sensing of a wide range of molecular targets relevant to human health.
    [Nature Biomedical Engineering]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    GC LabCell and GC Cell to Merge, Creating a Premier Cell Therapy Company

    GC LabCell and GC Cell announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction. The transaction brings together highly complementary portfolios with a robust broad cell therapy R&D pipeline and cutting-edge manufacturing capabilities to accelerate growth and enhance value creation.
    [GC LabCell (BusinessWire, Inc.)]

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    FEATURED EVENT

    2021 Annual Meeting of Korean Society for Stem Cell Research (KSSCR)

    August 12 – 14, 2021
    Busan, South Korea

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    JOB OPPORTUNITIES

    Postdoctoral Researcher – CRISPR/Cas9 and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology

    Aarhus University – Aarhus, Denmark

    PhD Student – Interaction between HSPCs and Their Bone Marrow Niche

    The Technical University of Munich – Munich, Germany

    Postdoctoral Scientist – Cell Therapies

    The Westmead Institute for Medical Research – Sydney, Australia

    PhD Student – Targeted Leukemia Prevention

    Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf, Germany

    Assistant Professor – Tissue Assembly, Physiology, and Engineering

    University of Basel – Basel, Switzerland

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