CAR-T cell therapy is a remarkably promising treatment for cancer patients. It is a type of immunotherapy where doctors collect immune cells, modify them in a laboratory, and provide them the power to easily recognize and kill cancer cells. When infused into a patient, the cells get multiplied and stay in the body as “living drugs.” [Read more…]
Fate Therapeutics Gets FDA Clearance of IND Application for World’s First iPSC-derived CAR T-Cell Therapy
FT819 CAR T-cell Product Candidate Derived from Clonal Master iPSC Line with Novel CD19-specific 1XX CAR Integrated into TRAC Locus
Phase 1 Clinical Study will Evaluate FT819 for Patients with Advanced B-cell Leukemias and Lymphomas
SAN DIEGO, July 09, 2020 — Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for FT819, an off-the-shelf allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting CD19+ malignancies.
FT819 is the first-ever CAR T-cell therapy derived from a clonal master induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line, and is engineered with several first-of-kind features designed to improve the safety and efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy. [Read more…]
Luminary Therapeutics and Case Western Reserve University Enter Formal Collaboration for Development of BAFF CAR
Luminary Tx and CWRU enter formal collaboration for clinical development of novel BAFF CAR to treat Mantle Cell Lymphoma and Sjogren’s Syndrome
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, USA, July 7, 2020– Luminary Therapeutics (Luminary Tx) and Case Western Reserve University have entered into a formal collaboration agreement that includes an option for Luminary to exclusively license a novel BAFF target for use in CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor T cells) constructs. [Read more…]
Genetic Modification of CAR-T Cells
Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T (CAR-T) cells are living therapies that are genetically engineered to express CAR molecules targeting antigens found on tumor cells or target cells of interest. Unfortunately, an obstacle for the field of CAR-T cell therapy is limited CAR T cell persistence after infusion into cancer patients. Thus, genetic engineering strategies to improve CAR T cell persistence will be central to the success of these gene-modified cellular therapies. [Read more…]
INTELLiSTEM Announces the Launch of a New Antigen Identification Platform for the Development of Novel CAR T Cells
TORONTO, ON, JANUARY 13, 2020 –– INTELLiSTEM Technologies, an international biotechnology company revolutionizing cell therapy, announces today the launch of IntelliPeptidomeTM, a novel Drug Discovery Platform for rapid and systematic identification of MHC/HLA bound peptide candidates for various clinical applications. [Read more…]
