Oncology

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and thus serves as an additional moment to point to the progress made in cell and gene therapy development, as well as the lingering challenges.

The first patient will be treated with CTO1681 at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.

Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending October 20, 2023.

Catch up on the latest news, breakthroughs, and announcements from biotechnology companies making advancements in cell and gene therapies.

The full data readout from the phase 1/2 clinical trial is expected in the first quarter of 2024.

The director of the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children's Research Institute discussed findings from several preclinical studies that could help bring engineered B-cell therapies to clinical trials.

The company noted that there have been no dose-limiting toxicities so far among the 3 patients in the cohort.

The term “immunotherapy” has quite a wide scope in cancer treatment. A lot of different therapies fall within the umbrella of immunotherapy, and two of the most successful are CAR T-cell therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Richard James, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Washington and a principal investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute, discussed a potential alternative to T-cell therapy in cancer.

Biosyngen is also evaluating the CAR T-cell therapy BRG01 in a phase 1/2 trial for EBV-positive relapsed/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

MT-601, in contrast to CAR-T therapies, is not genetically engineered.

Nadezhda Omelchenko, MD, a research associate at Cancer Center of Southern California in Santa Monica, discussed findings from patients treated with a combination therapy that included NK cell therapy SNK01.

Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending October 13, 2023.

The associate professor at the University of Washington, and principal investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute discussed results from a leukemia mouse model.

Catch up on the latest news, breakthroughs, and announcements from biotechnology companies making advancements in cell and gene therapies.

A NEWDIGS analysis compared clinical trial success rates from 1988 to 2020.

AVB-001 is currently being evaluated in a phase 1/2 clinical trial (NCT05538624) that was initiated in January 2023.

Fiona Freeman, PhD, assistant professor, University College Dublin, discussed her research into microRNA-29b in suppressing tumor growth and promoting bone remodeling in mice models.

The research associate at Cancer Center of Southern California in Santa Monica discussed findings from 3 patients treated with a combination therapy that included NK cell therapy SNK01.

In September 2023, LEU011 was granted an Innovation Passport for the treatment of solid tumors expressing NKG2D ligands.

Review top news and interview highlights from the week ending October 6, 2023.

Catch up on the latest news, breakthroughs, and announcements from biotechnology companies making advancements in cell and gene therapies.

The company also announced it has onboarded 15 transplant centers in the United States for the use of omidubicel, thus exceeding the goal it had set for itself for 2023.

Notably, no patients experienced cases of immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome.

The partnership between ASTCT, CIBMTR, and NMDP is a 2-day forum held October 2-3.