Epstein Barr virus: development of vaccines and immune cell therapy for EBV-associated diseases

X Cui, CM Snapper - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the first human tumor virus discovered and is strongly implicated
in the etiology of multiple lymphoid and epithelial cancers. Each year EBV associated …

Design and development of therapies using chimeric antigen receptor‐expressing T cells

G Dotti, S Gottschalk, B Savoldo… - Immunological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Investigators developed chimeric antigen receptors (CAR s) for expression on T cells more
than 25 years ago. When the CAR is derived from an antibody, the resultant cell should …

Scaffolds that mimic antigen-presenting cells enable ex vivo expansion of primary T cells

AS Cheung, DKY Zhang, ST Koshy, DJ Mooney - Nature biotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
Therapeutic ex vivo T-cell expansion is limited by low rates and T-cell products of limited
functionality. Here we describe a system that mimics natural antigen-presenting cells (APCs) …

Off-the-shelf EBV-specific T cell immunotherapy for rituximab-refractory EBV-associated lymphoma following transplantation

S Prockop, E Doubrovina, S Suser… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND Adoptive transfer of donor-derived EBV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes
(EBV-CTLs) can eradicate EBV-associated lymphomas (EBV-PTLD) after transplantation of …

Durable complete responses in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic melanoma using T-cell transfer immunotherapy

SA Rosenberg, JC Yang, RM Sherry, US Kammula… - Clinical cancer …, 2011 - AACR
Purpose: Most treatments for patients with metastatic melanoma have a low rate of complete
regression and thus overall survival in these patients is poor. We investigated the ability of …

Antitumor activity and long-term fate of chimeric antigen receptor–positive T cells in patients with neuroblastoma

CU Louis, B Savoldo, G Dotti, M Pule… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
We generated MHC-independent chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) directed to the GD2
antigen expressed by neuroblastoma tumor cells and treated patients with this disease. Two …

Infusion of donor-derived CD19-redirected virus-specific T cells for B-cell malignancies relapsed after allogeneic stem cell transplant: a phase 1 study

CRY Cruz, KP Micklethwaite, B Savoldo… - Blood, The Journal …, 2013 - ashpublications.org
Autologous T cells expressing a CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CD19. CAR) are
active against B-cell malignancies, but it is unknown whether allogeneic CD19. CAR T cells …

Guidelines for preventing infectious complications among hematopoietic cell transplant recipients: a global perspective

M Tomblyn, T Chiller, H Einsele, R Gress… - Bone marrow …, 2009 - nature.com
Guidelines for preventing infectious complications among hematopoietic cell transplant
recipients: a global perspective | Bone Marrow Transplantation Skip to main content Thank you …

Cancer regression and autoimmunity in patients after clonal repopulation with antitumor lymphocytes

ME Dudley, JR Wunderlich, PF Robbins, JC Yang… - Science, 2002 - science.org
We report here the adoptive transfer, to patients with metastatic melanoma, of highly
selected tumor-reactive T cells directed against overexpressed self-derived differentiation …

Epstein–Barr virus infection

JI Cohen - New England journal of medicine, 2000 - Mass Medical Soc
The Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) was discovered 36 years ago by electron microscopy of cells
cultured from Burkitt's lymphoma tissue by Epstein, Achong, and Barr. 1 Four years later, in …