Cell Therapy News Volume 22.36 | Oct 18 2021

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    Vol. 22.36 – 18 October, 2021
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    CAR T Cells with Dual Targeting of CD19 and CD22 in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients with Relapsed or Refractory B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Phase I Trial

    Researchers conducted a Phase I trial in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia to test AUTO3, autologous transduced T cells expressing both anti-CD19 and anti-CD22 CARs.
    [Nature Medicine]

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    ZBP1-MLKL Necroptotic Signaling Potentiates Radiation-Induced Antitumor Immunity via Intratumoral STING Pathway Activation

    Investigators developed a fibrin gel that accommodates CAR-T cell loading and promotes their gradual release.
    [Science Advances]

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    Introducing Dorsoventral Patterning in Adult Regenerating Lizard Tails with Gene-Edited Embryonic Neural Stem Cells

    Neural-stem cells were isolated from parthenogenetic lizard embryos, rendered unresponsive to Hedgehog signaling via CRISPR/Cas9 gene knockout of smoothened, and implanted back into clonally-identical adults to regulate tail regeneration.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Proinflammatory Cytokines Promote TET2-Mediated DNA Demethylation during CD8 T Cell Effector Differentiation

    To gain insight into the signaling determinants of effector-associated DNA methylation programming among CD8 T cells, scientists explored the role of interleukin-12 in the imprinting of IFNg expression during CD8 T cell priming.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Venetoclax and Azacitidine Followed by Allogeneic Transplant Results in Excellent Outcomes and May Improve Outcomes versus Maintenance Therapy among Newly Diagnosed AML Patients Older than 60

    The combination of venetoclax and azacitidine has resulted in high response rates in the upfront treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in patients age > 75 and patients unfit for intensive chemotherapy. The authors reported outcomes of stem cell transplant-eligible patients treated at their center.
    [Bone Marrow Transplantation]

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    The Unique Symptom Burden of Patients Receiving CAR T-Cell Therapy

    Patients who received standard CAR T cell therapy experienced numerous symptoms related to disease and CAR T cell therapy, including symptoms related to the T cell infusion.
    [Seminars in Oncology]

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    Enhancing Adoptive CD8 T Cell Therapy by Systemic Delivery of Tumor Associated Antigens

    Scientists showed that systemic delivery of tumor-associated antigens facilitated in vivo priming and expansion of previously non-activated T cells and enhanced the cytotoxicity of activated T cells.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Results from the MANTLE-FIRST Study on Behalf of Fondazione Italiana Linfomi

    Investigators retrospectively analyzed 55 patients who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation for mantle cell lymphoma relapsed or refractory after rituximab and high-dose cytarabine within the MANTLE-FIRST project.
    [Leukemia & Lymphoma]

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    ATG and Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide Predisposes to Inferior Outcome When Using Cryopreserved Stem Cell Grafts

    The authors analyzed the outcomes of 483 patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation between August 2017 and August 2020 in a retrospective study, comparing the outcomes between those who received cryopreserved or fresh peripheral blood stem cell grafts.
    [European Journal of Haematology]

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    Emerging Approaches to Improve Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Outcomes for Non-Malignant Diseases

    Scientists discuss the current approach to various clinical issues and how emerging novel therapeutics hold promise to advance transplant care for patients with non-malignant diseases.
    [Blood]

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    CAR-T Cell Therapy in T Cell Malignancies: Is Success a Low-Hanging Fruit?

    Investigators highlight the preclinical and clinical efforts made for addressing the drawbacks and also review additional potent stratagems that could improve CAR-T therapy in T cell malignancies.
    [Stem Cell Research & Therapy]

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    Combining Systemic and Locally Applied Cellular Therapies for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis

    The authors provide an overview of the cellular therapies available for the management of systemic sclerosis, including systemically injected therapies and locally administered regenerative cell therapies.
    [Bone Marrow Transplantation]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Century Therapeutics and Outpace Bio Enter Research Collaboration in CAR Engineering

    Century Therapeutics and Outpace Bio announced a research collaboration in CAR engineering. The collaboration will bring together Century’s CAR and protein engineering expertise with Outpace’s protein design and synthetic biology capabilities to enhance CAR functionality.
    [Century Therapeutics (GlobeNewswire, Inc.)]

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    Smart Immune Receives IRB Approval for Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Proprietary Allogeneic T-Cell Product Smart-101 (ProTcell™) for AML and ALL

    Smart Immune SAS, a T cell medicine company utilizing its proprietary ex vivo biomimetic “thymus in a dish” technology to develop allogeneic T cell progenitors Smart101 for rapid immune reconstitution, announced that the institutional review board (IRB) of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has approved the commencement of the company’s Phase I/II clinical trial.
    [Smart Immune SAS]

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