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What’s Next For CAR T: The Potential of Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer – R & D Magazine

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2017-11-13 NEWS

R & D Magazine

What’s Next For CAR T: The Potential of Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer
R & D Magazine
CAR T-cell therapy is created by collecting a patient’s T-cells, genetically modifying them to fight cancer, and then infusing them back into the patient. The first therapy in this class, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah), was FDA approved in August 2017 in
Researchers Build a Cancer Immunotherapy Without Immune CellsThe Scientist

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OncLive

Questions Remain With CART’s, Checkpoints in Hematologic Malignancies
OncLive
Despite major progress with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors in hematologic malignancies, questions remain regarding the use of these therapies in this landscape, according to Leo I. Gordon, MD.

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William & Mary News

William & Mary team wins First Runner-Up position in iGEM competition
William & Mary News
Each year iGEM hosts the largest syntheticbiology competition in the world, a months-long, student-driven projects involving biology, mathematics, chemistry and engineering. William & Mary’s team also won two special awards, one for Best Innovation in …