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Julie Kanter, MD

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Julie Kanter, MD, on Highest Priorities for Sickle Cell After Gene Therapy Approvals

The director of the Adult Sickle Cell Clinic and associate professor at University of Alabama Birmingham pointed out access to a sickle cell specialist as one such priority.


Levi Gray-Rupp, PhD

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Levi Gray-Rupp, PhD, on Using Integrated Circuit T-Cells Against Solid Tumors

The senior director of immunology at Arsenal Bio discussed advantages of ICTs and the company’s clinical trial in ovarian cancer.


Courtney Flaherty

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Mantle Cell Lymphoma Outcomes May Improve With Bispecific CD20/CD19-targeted CAR T-cell Therapies

Nirav N. Shah, MD, associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, discussed the evaluation of LV20.19 CAR in MCL, as well as key efficacy and safety data on the therapy to date.


Thomas G. Martin, MD

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Thomas Martin, MD, on Exciting Cell Therapy Options in Multiple Myeloma

The clinical professor of medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, discussed cilta-cel and upcoming cell therapies.


Stacy Lindborg, PhD

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Stacy Lindborg, PhD, on Addressing Unmet Needs in ALS With Cell Therapy

The co-CEO of BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics spoke about the current standards of care in ALS and the potential of NurOwn to address unmet needs.


Maria Escolar, MD

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Maria Escolar, MD, on Treating Krabbe Disease With Investigational Gene Therapy FBX-101

The chief medical officer of Forge Biologics discussed updated data from the phase 1/2 RESKUE clinical trial that she presented at ASGCT’s 2023 conference.



Christian S. Hinrichs, MD

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Christian Hinrichs, MD, on Improving Solid Tumor Targeting With Engineered T-Cell Therapies

The chief of cancer immunotherapy at Rutgers Cancer Institute discussed clinical results with different cell therapy approaches.


Ralph Laufer, PhD

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Gene Therapy for GM1 Gangliosidosis: Latest Updates

Ralph Laufer, PhD, chief scientific officer, Lysogene, discussed gene therapy programs in GM1 gangliosidosis and Fragile X syndrome.


Pietro Genovese, PhD

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Pietro Genovese, PhD, on Using Base-Editing to Protect Healthy Stem Cells from Immunotherapy Toxicity

The principal investigator at the Gene Therapy Program of Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorder Center discussed innovative uses of gene editing technology.


Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH

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Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH, on the Simultaneous Approvals of Exa-cel and Lovo-cel For SCD

The chief of hematology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia discussed dual approval of the 2 gene therapies that coincided with ASH’s 2023 conference.


Samiah Al-Zaidy, MD

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Samiah Al-Zaidy, MD, on Gene Therapy for Infantile GM1 Gangliosidosis

Al-Zaidy, the vice president of clinical development and lead on the GM1 Program at Passage Bio, discussed the results of the phase 1/2 Imagine-01 clinical trial of PBGM01.


Philippe Moreau, MD

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Promising Outlook in Multiple Myeloma with Cilta-Cel: Philippe Moreau, MD

Philippe Moreau, MD, discussed the CARTITUDE-1 trial's promising results with ciltacabtagene autoleucel read out at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.


Sharon Hesterlee, PhD

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Sharon Hesterlee, PhD, on What Attendees Can Look Forward to at MDA’s 2024 Conference

The chief research officer of the Muscular Dystrophy Association also went over the highlights from last year’s meeting.


Michael Kelly, PhD

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Michael Kelly, PhD, on Gene Therapy’s Continuing Path to Treating DMD

The chief scientific officer of CureDuchenne discussed challenges to tackle in the field.


Carlos Moraes, PhD

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Carlos Moraes, PhD, on Understanding Mitochondrial Mutations for Neurodegenerative Diseases

The Lichtenstein professor of neurology at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine discussed research his lab is pursuing and its applications.


Joseph Sullivan, MD

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Novel Therapies in Development for Dravet Syndrome

Joseph Sullivan, MD, and Elaine C. Wirrell, MD, discuss new developments for the treatment of Dravet syndrome beyond seizure control including gene editing and therapy.


Elaine C. Wirrell, MD

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Novel Therapies in Development for Dravet Syndrome

Joseph Sullivan, MD, and Elaine C. Wirrell, MD, discuss new developments for the treatment of Dravet syndrome beyond seizure control including gene editing and therapy.


Chris Ryan

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Zevorcabtagene Autoleucel Approved in China for R/R Multiple Myeloma, Phase 2 Study in US Ongoing

Zever-cel is being assessed in the phase 2 LUMMICAR-2 trial (NCT03915184) in North America, previously reporting results of an ORR of 100% among 11 patients.


Takashi Kei Kishimoto, PhD

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Re-Dosing With Gene Therapies in Rare Diseases

Takashi Kei Kishimoto, PhD, and Carsten Brunn, PhD, the chief science and executive officers of Selecta Biosciences, discussed the immunogenicity-mitigating properties of ImmTOR.


Marcus Conant, MD

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Marcus Conant, MD, on Investigating Gene Therapy for HIV Suppression

The Chief Medical Officer of Addimmune discussed past and future research with the AGT103-T gene therapy.


Kevin Flanigan, MD

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Kevin Flanigan, MD, on the Impact of Neuromuscular Disease Gene Therapy Approvals

The director of the center for gene therapy at Nationwide Children's Hospital discussed the prospect of gene therapy approvals in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the associated challenges that remain to be addressed.


Courtney Young, PhD

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Courtney Young, PhD, on Gene Editing Approaches to Treating Neuromuscular Disease

The co-founder and chief executive officer of MyoGene Bio spoke about the company's gene editing therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy at MDA’s 2023 conference.


John A. Charlson, MD

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John A. Charlson, MD, on Afami-Cel’s Upcoming Review for Synovial Sarcoma

The associate professor of medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, discussed advantages of afami-cel and data from the pivotal SPEARHEAD-1 trial.


Rebecca Cottman, PhD

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Rebecca Cottman, PhD, on Enhancing Cell Therapy Cytotoxicity With a Regulated Gene Circuit

The scientist at Senti Biosciences discussed preclinical research presented at ASGCT 2023.


David Taylor, PhD

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Improving Speed and Fidelity of CRISPR/Cas9: Kenneth Johnson, PhD, and David Taylor, PhD

The professors and researchers from The University of Texas at Austin discussed new findings of Cas9 structure and mechanisms.


Marin F. Xavier, MD

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Increasing CAR T-cell Use in R/R DLBC Lymphoma: Marin F. Xavier, MD; John M. Burke, MD

Experts discuss recommendations to increase the uptake of CAR T-cell therapies into clinical practice and relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.


Jonathan W. Weinsaft, MD

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Jonathan W. Weinsaft, MD, on Working to Bring Novel Therapies to Cardiovascular Disease

The chief of cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College discussed gene therapy research into Friedreich ataxia and more.


Bart P. Leroy, MD, PhD

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Bart P. Leroy, MD, PhD, on Aligning IRD Gene Therapy Outcome Measures With Activities of Daily Living

The head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Center for Medical Genetics at Ghent University Hospital discussed the need to reevaluate requirements for regulatory approval for ophthalmology gene therapies.


Tiffany Chen, PhD

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Tiffany Chen, PhD, on the Role of Preclinical Models in Cell Therapy Research for Autoimmune Disease

The vice president of discovery at GentiBio discussed the panel she participated in at the inaugural Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Disease Summit.

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