A collaborative team from Arc Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and UCSF has unveiled a groundbreaking epigenetic editing platform that could revolutionize next-generation cell therapies. Published in Nature Biotechnology on October 21,…
A study led by a team of German scientists provides evidence of the safety and efficacy of CD19 CAR T cell therapy and its impact on autoimmune diseases. The study…
Treating cancer can be challenging. While there are many different potential therapeutic options designed for people with cancer, these treatments are not always effective. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell…
Welcome to Study of the Week from Patient Worthy. In this segment, we select a study we posted about from the previous week that we think is of particular interest…
In the United States, Orphan Drug designation is granted to drugs or biologics intended to treat, diagnose, or prevent rare diseases. Rare diseases are those affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans.…
The FDA has recently announced that they have put a clinical trial for relapsed or refractory T-cell lymphoma patients and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma patients on hold. This trial was a…
According to a recent article, after the results of a clinical trial, researchers have proven that CAR-T cells can cure patients that are diagnosed with leukemia. Leukemia Leukemia is a…
According to a press release from the pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb, the company's CAR T-Cell therapy idecabtagene vicleucel (marketed as Abecma) has been approved by the Japanese Ministry of…
Written by Robyn Stacy-Humphries Wolverine, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and Deadpool - superheroes most of us love. Why? They have superpowers and escape death by some type of genetic alteration. Humans…
According to Pharmaceutical Business Review, Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel), a CAR T-cell therapy designed to treat patients with relapsed and refractory (R/R) multiple myeloma (MM), received conditional marketing authorization from the…
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has proven to be a successful therapy for a number of conditions; however, we do not see the same success in follicular lymphoma and…
Until recently, multiple myeloma patients were reliant upon treatment with immunomodulatory drugs, anti-CD38 antibodies, proteasome inhibitors, and autologous (patient-derived) stem cell transplants. According to a recent article in CancerConnect, patients…
According to a recent report in Cancer Network, the results from CARTITUDE-1 were well received. CARTITUDE-1 is a phase 1b/2 clinical trial of the CAR T-cell treatment, Cilta-Cel, for the…
When many people hear CAR T-cell therapy, they think about a treatment designed to address cancer. Recently, a new study done on mice models has suggested that an experimental form…
Recently, scientists and researchers from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health (GOS ICH) and the UCL Cancer Institute worked to create an innovative solution for patients with cancerous…
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