Cell Therapy News Volume 23.00 | Jan 10 2021

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    Vol. 23.00 – 10 January, 2022
    TOP STORY

    CAR T Cells Produced In Vivo to Treat Cardiac Injury

    Scientists developed a therapeutic approach to generate transient antifibrotic CAR T cells in vivo by delivering modified mRNA in T cell–targeted lipid nanoparticles.
    [Science]

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    Survey results on the insights and hurdles of CRISPR genome editing.
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    GPC2-CAR T Cells Tuned for Low Antigen Density Mediate Potent Activity against Neuroblastoma without Toxicity

    Resarchers developed T cells expressing CARs targeting glypican-2 (GPC2), a fetal antigen expressed on neuroblastoma and several other solid tumors.
    [Cancer Cell]

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    Engineering CAR-T Cells to Activate Small-Molecule Drugs In Situ

    Investigators developed a novel class of CAR-T cells engineered to express an enzyme that activated a systemically administered small-molecule prodrug in situ at a tumor site.
    [Nature Chemical Biology]

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    Engineered Clustered Myoblast Cell Injection Augments Angiogenesis and Muscle Regeneration in Peripheral Artery Disease

    Clustered cells from myoblast cell sheets obtained from C57/BL6 mice were administered into ischemic mouse muscles seven days after induction of ischemia.
    [Molecular Therapy]

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    D2HGDH-Mediated D2HG Catabolism Enhances the Anti-Tumor Activities of CAR-T Cells in an Immunosuppressive Microenvironment

    In vivo xenograft experiments confirmed D2HGDH-OE CAR-T cell decreased serum D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D2HG) and improved the overall survival of mice bearing NALM6 cancer cells with mutation IDH1.
    [Molecular Therapy]

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    TCR-Induced FOXP3 Expression by CD8+ T Cells Impairs Their Anti-Tumor Activity

    Investigators showed that suboptimal T cell receptor stimulation of CD8+ T cells upregulated FOXP3 in vitro.
    [Cancer Letters]

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    Systemic and Local Innate Immune Responses to Surgical Co-Transplantation of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Biphasic Calcium Phosphate for Bone Regeneration

    Scientists assessed the local and systemic innate immune responses to implantation of biphasic calcium phosphate biomaterial alone, or with bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells, in critical-sized calvarial bone defects of Lewis rats.
    [Acta Biomaterialia]

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    Anti-CAIX BBζ CAR4/8 T Cells Exhibit Superior Efficacy in a Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC) Mouse Model

    The authors compared second-generation with third-generation carbonic anhydrase IX targeted CAR constructs and investigated the anti-tumor effect of CAR-T cells with different CD4/CD8 proportions in vitro and in vivo.
    [Molecular Therapy Oncolytics]

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    High Efficacy and Safety of CD38 and BCMA Bispecific CAR-T in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

    The authors assessed the efficacy and safety of B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) and CD38 bispecific CAR-T cells in refractory multiple myeloma patients.
    [Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research]

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    High Efficacy and Safety of CD38 and BCMA Bispecific CAR-T in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

    The authors assessed the efficacy and safety of Bcell maturation antigen (BCMA) and CD38 bispecific CAR-T cells in refractory multiple myeloma patients.
    [Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research]

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    Neurogenic and Cognitive Enhancing Effects of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells and its Secretome in Animal Model of Hippocampal Neurodegeneration

    Probing the possible mechanisms of neuroprotection revealed that dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs)/DPSCs-conditioned media treatment upregulated an array of hosts’ endogenous neural survival factors expression.
    [Brain Research Bulletin]

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    Allogeneic Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Transplantation for Refractory Lupus Nephritis: Results of a Phase I Clinical Trial

    In a Phase I trial, nine biopsy-proven lupus nephritis patients refractory to standard treatments underwent systemic infusion of 2×106 allogeneic adipose-derived MSCs/kg and were followed for 12 months post-intervention.
    [Current Research in Translational Medicine]

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    Late Effects in Survivors of High-Risk Neuroblastoma Following Stem Cell Transplant with and without Total Body Irradiation

    Researchers examined an expanded cohort of 48 high-risk neuroblastoma patients to identify differences in the late effect profiles for those treated with total body irradiation (TBI) and those treated without TBI.
    [Pediatric Blood & Cancer]

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    REVIEWS

    CAR-Ts: New Perspectives in Cancer Therapy

    Investigators address potential future targets to overcome the flaws of CAR-T cell technology in the treatment of cancer, emphasizing glycan antigens, the aberrant forms of which attain high tumour-specific expression, as alternative targets for CAR-T cells.
    [Febs Letters]

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    Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Editing and Expansion: State-of-the-Art Technologies and Recent Applications

    Scientists present a summary and discussion of the implications of new approaches to improve hematopoietic stem cell transplantation-based therapy.
    [Experimental Hematology]

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    Tissue Engineering in Dermatology – from Lab to Market

    The authors reviewvarious articles on tissue engineering in the field of dermatology.
    [Tissue and Cell]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Genprex Receives US FDA Fast Track Designation for REQORSA™ Immunogene Therapy in Combination with Keytruda® for the Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Genprex, Inc. announced that the FDA has granted Fast Track Designation for the Company’s lead drug candidate, REQORSA™ Immunogene Therapy, in combination with Merck & Co’s Keytruda® in patients with histologically-confirmed unresectable stage III or IV non-small cell lung cancer whose disease progressed after treatment with Keytruda.
    [Genprex, Inc.]

    Press Release

    Celularity Receives Fast Track Designation from US FDA for its NK Cell Therapy CYNK-001 in Development for the Treatment of AML

    Celularity, Inc. announced the FDA has granted Fast Track Designation for its non-genetically modified cryopreserved human placental hematopoietic stem cell-derived natural killer cell therapy, CYNK-001, in development for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
    [Celularity, Inc.]

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    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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    National Institute of Health – Rockville, Maryland, United States

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    Intima Bioscience – Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

    Postdoctoral Researcher – CAR T Cells Engineered to Treat Multiple Myeloma

    Memorial Sloan Kettering – New York City, New York, United States

    Postdoctoral Researcher – Therapeutic Targets

    Flanders Institute for Biotechnology – Leuven, Belgium

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