Advancements in CAR-NK therapy: lessons to be learned from CAR-T therapy

MK Kilgour, DJ Bastin, SH Lee, M Ardolino… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Advancements in chimeric antigen receptor engineered T-cell (CAR-T) therapy have
revolutionized treatment for several cancer types over the past decade. Despite this success …

Process engineering of natural killer cell-based immunotherapy

P Motallebnejad, A Kantardjieff, F Cichocki… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Cell therapy offers the potential for curative treatment of cancers. Although T cells have been
the predominantly used cell type, natural killer (NK) cells have attracted great attention …

CAR NK cells: the future is now

MJ Raftery, AS Franzén, G Pecher - Annual Review of Cancer …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been a great success in CD19+
hematological diseases. Natural killer (NK) CAR cells offer an alternative to CAR T cells with …

Engineering Improved CAR T Cell Products with A Multi‐Cytokine Particle Platform for Hematologic and Solid Tumors

HK Lin, B Uricoli, R Freeman… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the remarkable clinical efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in
hematological malignancies, only a subset of patients achieves a durable complete …

[HTML][HTML] A Critical Role of Culture Medium Selection in Maximizing the Purity and Expansion of Natural Killer Cells

N Kusch, J Storm, A Macioszek, E Kisselmann… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Natural killer (NK) cells hold promise in cancer treatment due to their ability to
spontaneously lyse cancer cells. For clinical use, high quantities of pure, functional NK cells …

Anticancer traits of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)-Natural Killer (NK) cells as novel approaches for melanoma treatment

M Bahmanyar, MK Vakil, GRL Al-Awsi, SA Kouhpayeh… - BMC cancer, 2022 - Springer
Owing to non-responsiveness of a high number of patients to the common melanoma
therapies, seeking novel approaches seem as an unmet requirement. Chimeric antigen …

Generation and optimization of off-the-shelf immunotherapeutics targeting TCR-Vβ2+ T cell malignancy

J Ren, X Liao, JM Lewis, J Chang, R Qu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current treatments for T cell malignancies encounter issues of disease relapse and off-target
toxicity. Using T cell receptor (TCR) Vβ2 as a model, here we demonstrate the rapid …

Fabrication of polymeric microspheres for biomedical applications

X Li, L Li, D Wang, J Zhang, K Yi, Y Su, J Luo… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymeric microspheres (PMs) have attracted great attention in the field of biomedicine in
the last several decades due to their small particle size, special functionalities shown on the …

Addressing natural killer cell dysfunction and plasticity in cell-based cancer therapeutics

KM Coyle, LG Hawke, ML Ormiston - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The natural killer (NK) cells of the immune system identify and remove
stressed, infected, or cancerous cells in the body. This anti-tumor functionality has been …

Scalable process development of NK and CAR-NK expansion in a closed bioreactor

X Wang, ME Byrne, C Liu, MT Ma, D Liu - Frontiers in immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Production of large amounts of functional NK and CAR-NK cells represents one of the
bottlenecks for NK-based immunotherapy. In this study, we developed a large-scale …