Matt Hoffman

In Episode 3 of ImmunoLogic, Marcela Maus, MD, PhD, discussed her research on CAR-T for treating glioblastoma.

In Episode 2 of ImmunoLogic, Bruce Levine, PhD, discussed the current the risk-benefit-ratio for CAR-T therapy.

In Episode 1 of ImmunoLogic, Stephen J. Schuster, MD, discussed the potential of treating lymphoma without chemotherapy.

Hosted by Joseph Fraietta, PhD, ImmunoLogic will be tailored for an audience fluent in the language of medicine and biotechnology, offering data-driven insights while maintaining accessibility.

A long-term follow-up to the DREPAGREFFE-1 trial suggest that children with sickle cell anemia may benefit long-term on risk of cerebral injury, cognitive functions, and quality of life over standard care transfusions.

Among those who had undetectable minimal residual disease, autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation showed signs of benefit only for those who remained MRD-positive following induction therapy.

Allo-HSCT showed good 2-year survival data, with matched sibling donors showing superior outcomes to alternative donors.

Sana Biotechnology’s SC291 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is being developed to treat relapsed/refractory systemic lupus erythematosus, including extrarenal lupus and lupus nephritis.

The Rocket Pharmaceuticals AAV9 treatment was assessed in a 3-cohort trial of 7 patients, showing good safety and encouraging efficacy signals.

Approved as Skysona, the therapy has been reported to be related to cases of hematologic malignancies, including life-threatening instances of myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia.

The CAR-T therapy was approved based on the pivotal phase 1b/2 FELIX clinical trial (NCT04404660), which showed good rates of overall complete remission and median duration of remission.

Intellia’s investigational CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy NTLA-2002 reduced monthly attacks by more than 70% in both tested dose arms.

Patients with melanoma treated with ACTengine IMA203 achieved high response rates, with progression-free survival of 6 months and duration of response beyond 1 year.

Among more than 100 patients with hemophilia A, no FVIII-specific responses showed associations with the assessed safety or efficacy parameters.

The therapy, rAAV-Olig001-ASPA, has shown positive clinical benefits in several interim updates from an ongoing, first-in-human phase 1/2 clinical trial (NCT04833907).

Patients with large B-cell lymphoma in the TRANSFORM trial showed improvements over 3-year period compared with standard of care.

A study of the flu seasons from 2017 to 2020 suggest that cell-based influenza vaccines outperformed egg-based vaccines in effectiveness.

The decision was supported by the phase 3 BENEGENE-2 trial, which suggested that the Pfizer gene therapy was superior to standard of care FIX prophylaxis.

An interim analysis of a phase 1/2 study suggest the REGENXBIO therapy also showed efficacy signals.

A 2-year evaluation of a small cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, idiopathic inflammatory myositis, and systemic sclerosis showed safety and efficacy which were supportive of additional clinical trials.

Iovance’s tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy is the first cellular therapy to earn this indication, with the phase 3, confirmatory TILVANCE-301 trial set to verify its clinical benefit.

The ongoing, multistage phase 1/2/3 Cyprus2+ study (NCT04884815) expects to read out initial safety and efficacy data in the first half of 2024.

PepGen’s ongoing multiple ascending dose trial is expected to read out initial data in mid-2024.

These, among many others, are some of the key clinical trials of gene, cell, and regenerative therapies that the CGTLive staff will be following throughout 2024.

The CSL Behring/uniQure gene therapy produced significant reductions in annualized bleeding rates and the number of total bleeds, with a consistent safety profile and no new adverse events.

Among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, the Bristol Myers Squibb CAR T cell product showed consistent efficacy in patients with a lack of success with BTK inhibitor and venetoclax treatment.

Bluebird bio’s gene therapy, marketed as Zynteglo, showed successful rates of transfusion independence up to 9 years with a reasonable safety profile in data presented at ASH 2023.

The FDA’s Nicole Verdun, MD; and Peter Marks, MD, PhD, offered insight on the recent approvals of exa-cel and lovo-cel, answering questions about the safety of the gene therapies and the continued collection of data on their use.

The decision was supported by efficacy data from 36 patients from the ongoing phase 1/2 HGB-206 trial (NCT02140554) and 2 patients in the phase 3 HGB-210 trial (NCT04293185).

Health Canada has greenlit a protocol amendment for Taysha Gene Therapies’ trial to include patients aged 12 years and older, rather than only adult patients.