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Mechanisms of Resistance for CAR T Therapy – OncLive

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2018-01-18 NEWS

OncLive

Mechanisms of Resistance for CAR T Therapy
OncLive
And so, when we’ve had patients who relapsed and still retained the CD19 antigen and they’ve generally had a loss of CAR T cells, they, in general, do not respond to a second infusion. And in those who don’t respond, we’ve been able to show that they

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UK’s CGT Catapult Partners with Freeline to Build Gene Therapy Manufacturing Platform
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Catapult said today it will partner with Freeline Therapeutics to build the gene therapy developer’s proprietary manufacturing platform at the CGT Catapult’s large-scale GMP manufacturing center in Stevenage

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OncLive

Treating Advanced Bladder Cancer in the Future
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Daniel J. George, MD: Immunotherapy in bladder cancer is here to stay. There is no doubt about the fact that we have changed this platinum-refractory setting. There’s no doubt in my mind that this is going to become more and more a part of our

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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

The Challenge of Immunotherapy: Staying on Target
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Some of the side effects of immunotherapy resemble symptoms of autoimmune diseases; he added that experts treating Crohn’s disease might be able to help oncologists treat colitis in cancer patients, for instance. Immune checkpoint blockade works by

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OncLive

MSI Testing’s Impact on Immunotherapy in Gastric Cancers
OncLive
And our data from MSKCC in the metastatic setting, which was recently published in Cancer Discovery, shows that MSI metastatic gastric cancer progresses on systemic chemotherapy within the first 4 months of treatment, showing that these tumors are

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Pharmaceutical Business Review

Novartis sBLA for CART Therapy Kymriah Accepted by FDA
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A novel immunocellular therapy and one-time treatment, Kymriah uses patient’s T cells to fight cancer. CAR-T is manufactured for individual patients using their own cells thereby making it different from typical small molecule or biologic therapies
Novartis gets US priority review for Kymriah for adults with lymphomaReuters
Novartis’ Kymriah nabs speedy reviews in US, Europe for lymphoma treatmentPharmaceutical Business Review
US FDA grants priority review status to Novartis’ sBLA for Kymriah to treat adults with r/r DLBCLpharmabiz.com

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Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review

CRISPR: the gene editing tool making the world go round
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The battle over clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology between Feng Zhang and the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the one side and Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Krzysztof
Mixed views on Broad’s fate after EPO revokes CRISPR patentLife Sciences Intellectual Property Review

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Pacific Standard

Why Gene Therapy Is No Longer a Pipe Dream
Pacific Standard
Last year will be remembered for many things, many of them not good. But here’s at least one flicker of hope: 2017 may go down as the year gene therapy finally turned a corner. In late December, the Food and Drug Administration announced its approval
FDA Approves Spark Therapeutics’ Gene Therapy for Inherited Vision LossTheafricom

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