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 …

Overcoming on-target, off-tumour toxicity of CAR T cell therapy for solid tumours

CL Flugel, RG Majzner, G Krenciute, G Dotti… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Therapies with genetically modified T cells that express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
specific for CD19 or B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) are approved to treat certain B cell …

GD2-CART01 for relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma

F Del Bufalo, B De Angelis, I Caruana… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Immunotherapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–expressing T cells that
target the disialoganglioside GD2 expressed on tumor cells may be a therapeutic option for …

Advancing therapy for neuroblastoma

B Qiu, KK Matthay - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas are tumours of sympathetic origin, with a heterogeneous clinical course
ranging from localized or spontaneously regressing to widely metastatic disease …

Anti-GD2 CAR-NKT cells in relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma: updated phase 1 trial interim results

A Heczey, X Xu, AN Courtney, G Tian, GA Barragan… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Vα24-invariant natural killer T cells (NKTs) have anti-tumor properties that can be enhanced
by chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Here we report updated interim results from the first-in …

Current advances and challenges in CAR T-Cell therapy for solid tumors: tumor-associated antigens and the tumor microenvironment

T Yan, L Zhu, J Chen - Experimental Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
The past decade has witnessed ongoing progress in immune therapy to ameliorate human
health. As an emerging technique, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has the …

GD2-CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas

RG Majzner, S Ramakrishna, KW Yeom, S Patel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and other H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas
(DMGs) are universally lethal paediatric tumours of the central nervous system. We have …

[HTML][HTML] GPC2-CAR T cells tuned for low antigen density mediate potent activity against neuroblastoma without toxicity

S Heitzeneder, KR Bosse, Z Zhu, D Zhelev… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pediatric cancers often mimic fetal tissues and express proteins normally silenced
postnatally that could serve as immune targets. We developed T cells expressing chimeric …

Metabolic challenges and interventions in CAR T cell therapy

JJ Peng, L Wang, Z Li, CL Ku, PC Ho - Science Immunology, 2023 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have achieved true clinical success in treating
hematological malignancy patients, laying the foundation of CAR T cells as a new pillar of …

An optimized bicistronic chimeric antigen receptor against GPC2 or CD276 overcomes heterogeneous expression in neuroblastoma

M Tian, AT Cheuk, JS Wei… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies targeting single antigens have performed
poorly in clinical trials for solid tumors due to heterogenous expression of tumor-associated …