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Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy – EurekAlert (press release)

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy
EurekAlert (press release)
“SU2C and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation have committed millions of dollars to the development of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy,” said Sung Poblete, PhD, RN, president and CEO of SU2C. “The Dream Team has especially investigated …

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy
EurekAlert (press release)
“SU2C and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation have committed millions of dollars to the development of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy,” said Sung Poblete, PhD, RN, president and CEO of SU2C. “The Dream Team has especially investigated …

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Critics of StemCell Research Are Not Anti-Science
The Chronicle of Higher Education (blog)
(The Chronicle, July 10), Professor David Hopkins contributes in a small way to the political polarization of academic subjects when he treats “The conservative critique of . . . the hard sciences” as focused on “subjects like stemcell research

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Novartis CART Therapy Drug Recommended by FDA Panel
Zacks.com
CAR-T is manufactured for each individual patient using their own cells thereby making it different from typical small molecule or biologic therapies. During the treatment process, T cells are drawn from a patient’s blood. These cells are then

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Gizmodo

Did an FDA Panel Really Just Approve the First Gene Therapy Treatment?
Gizmodo
This week marked a major milestone in medicine: On Wednesday, a Food and Drug Administration panel unanimously recommended the approval of the first CAR-T therapy, a pioneering new cancer drug from Novartis that genetically engineers a patient’s …
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