CAR immune cells: design principles, resistance and the next generation

L Labanieh, CL Mackall - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The remarkable clinical activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies in B cell and
plasma cell malignancies has validated the use of this therapeutic class for liquid cancers …

CAR T therapy beyond cancer: the evolution of a living drug

DJ Baker, Z Arany, JA Baur, JA Epstein, CH June - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Engineering a patient's own T cells to selectively target and eliminate tumour cells has cured
patients with untreatable haematologic cancers. These results have energized the field to …

Engineering the next-generation of CAR T-cells with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

A Dimitri, F Herbst, JA Fraietta - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells represent a breakthrough in personalized
cancer therapy. In this strategy, synthetic receptors comprised of antigen recognition …

Engineering strategies to overcome the current roadblocks in CAR T cell therapy

S Rafiq, CS Hackett, RJ Brentjens - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
T cells genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have proven—
and impressive—therapeutic activity in patients with certain subtypes of B cell leukaemia or …

'Off-the-shelf'allogeneic CAR T cells: development and challenges

S Depil, P Duchateau, SA Grupp, G Mufti… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have changed the therapeutic
landscape in haematological malignancies. Nevertheless, the use of allogeneic CAR T cells …

Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In …

Pluripotent stem cell-derived CAR-macrophage cells with antigen-dependent anti-cancer cell functions

L Zhang, L Tian, X Dai, H Yu, J Wang, A Lei… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
The Chimera antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has gained great success in the clinic.
However, there are still major challenges for its wider applications in a variety of cancer …

The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

Induced pluripotent stem cells in disease modelling and drug discovery

RG Rowe, GQ Daley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
The derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) over a decade ago sparked
widespread enthusiasm for the development of new models of human disease, enhanced …

Advances in universal CAR-T cell therapy

H Lin, J Cheng, W Mu, J Zhou, L Zhu - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy achieved extraordinary achievements
results in antitumor treatments, especially against hematological malignancies, where it …