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Irene Agodoa, MD

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Irene Agodoa, MD, on Addressing GVHD Risks in Treating Hematologic Malignancies

The senior vice president and head of medical affairs at Orca Bio discussed how Orca-T has been developed to lower the risk of graft-versus-host disease.


Anita Kumar, MD

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Addressing Unmet Needs in Mantle Cell Lymphoma With CAR T Therapy: Anita Kumar, MD

The medical oncologist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discussed efforts made to address areas of unmet need in mantle cell lymphoma.


Jan Joseph Melenhorst, PhD

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Achieving Remission in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia With CD4+ CAR T-Cells: Jan Joseph Melenhorst, PhD

The translational immunologist and research professor at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, discussed persistence of CD4+ CAR T-cells in CLL.


Edward Holland, MD

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Treating Endothelial Disease With One Cornea Donor

Edward Holland, MD, chief medical advisor, discussed an injectable technique where one cornea donor could potentially supply hundreds of patients with treatment for endothelial disease.


Paul Rennert

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Improving Safety With CAR Engager Proteins

Paul Rennert, president and chief scientific officer of Aleta BioTherapeutics, discussed the company’s research on CAR T therapies.


Magali Taiel, MD

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Gene Therapy for Retinal and Neurological Diseases

Magali Taiel, MD, chief medical officer, GenSight Biologics, discussed future research the company plans to pursue.


David S. Hong, MD

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David S. Hong, MD, on the SURPASS Clinical Trial and TCR T-cell Therapy in Solid Tumors

Hong presented data from the SURPASS clinical trial at the 2022 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress.


Swati Naik, MBBS

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Swati Naik, MBBS, on Investigating CD123-CAR T Therapy for Relapsed AML

The assistant member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discussed updated data from a phase 1 study being conducted at the hospital.


Jeffrey Miller, MD

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Jeffrey Miller, MD, on Emerging Research With Natural Killer Cells

The deputy director of the Masonic Cancer Center discussed trends of presentations from ESMO 2022.


Milind Desai, MD, MBA

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Milind Desai, MD, MBA, on Clinically Evaluating MYBPC3–Associated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Gene Therapy

The director of the Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy at the Cleveland Clinic discussed the design of the MyPeak-1 clinical trial for TN-201 and the associated MyCLIMB natural history study.


Zinaida Good, PhD

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Zinaida Good, PhD, on Exploring CAR-T Expansion Through Lineage Tracing

The instructor at Stanford Institutes of Medicine discussed the key takeaways of her research into the factors that affect CAR-T expansion.


Shannon L. Maude, MD, PhD

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Shannon L. Maude, MD, PhD, on Favorable Safety of Tisagenlecleucel in Pediatric B-ALL

The oncologist from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia discussed long-term safety data with tisagenlecleucel in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.


Richard G. Fessler, MD

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Richard Fessler, MD, on OPC1 Improving Quality of Life With Spinal Cord Injury

The professor of neurosurgery at Rush University Medical School discussed follow-up in the phase 1/2 trial of LCTOPC1 and further research to be done.


Piers Blombery, MBBS, PhD

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Piers Blombery, MBBS, PhD, on More ctDNA, MRD Biomarker Use in Blood Cancer for 2024

The associate professor at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre discussed highlights from the 2023 ASH meeting.


John Parkinson

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Applying a Novel Gene Editing Approach to Chronic Hepatitis B

Precision Bio is taking a novel approach to gene editing to deploy a cure for patients with chronic hepatitis B.


Leticia Tordesillas, PhD

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Leticia Tordesillas, PhD, on the Potential of γδ CAR T-cells to Treat Bone Metastatic Prostate Cancer

The research scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center discussed the results of the preclinical study she presented at the 2023 AACR annual meeting and avenues for further research.


Robert Ang, MBBS, MBA

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Future Research With Stem Cell Therapies in Hematologic Malignancies

The chief executive and chief medical officers of Vor Biopharma discussed the company’s future research and plans.


Alexandra Lisi

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Alexandra Lisi on Scaling Manufacturing Efficiency to Support Cell Therapy

The cell therapy field applications staff scientist at ThermoFisher discussed advantages of the company’s DynaCellect system.


Surbhi Sidana, MD

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Surbhi Sidana, MD, on Assessing Ide-cel in Patients With R/R Multiple Myeloma and Renal Impairment

The assistant professor of medicine, bone marrow transplantation and cellular therapy, Stanford, discussed favorable data from a real-world experience study.


Martin Harp

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IND for Gene Replacement Therapy for Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Cleared by FDA

The company is developing a one-time, non-AAV2 gene replacement therapy to restore, treat, and prevent blindness of patients with RPE65 mutation-associated retinopathies.


Lynne Lederman, PhD

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Later-Generation Cell Therapies Increase Utility in Hematologic Malignancies

CAR T-cell therapy use will likely expand to a wider array of hematologic malignancies.


Jay Spiegel, MD, FRCPC

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Jay Spiegel, MD, FRCPC, on 5-Year Real-World Outcomes From Axi-cel in R/R LBCL

The hematologist and cell therapist from the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center spoke about long-term outcome data he presented at ASH’s 2023 conference.


Veit Bücklein, Dr Med

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Veit Bücklein, Dr Med, on Research Trends in Hematological Malignancy Cell Therapy

The postdoctoral researcher at Laboratory for Translational Cancer Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, discussed research he was excited to see at ASH 2023 and in the field in general.


Samir Parekh, MD

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Samir Parekh, MD, on Surprising Efficacy of Sequential T-Cell Redirection Therapy in Multiple Myeloma

The director of translational research in myeloma at the Tisch Cancer Institute discussed the relevance of the new research as more CAR T therapies come to market.


Jay Barth, MD

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Jay Barth, MD, on Ascidian Therapeutics' Developments in Gene Therapy

CGTLive's sister publication spoke with Barth, the chief medical officer at Ascidian, about the company’s attempts to develop a new method of administration for gene therapy at ARVO 2023.


Omer A. Abdul Hamid, MD

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Omer A. Abdul Hamid, MD, on Sharing Expertise With Gene Therapy Logistics

The pediatric neurologist at Nemours Children’s Health offered advice and discussed his experiences delivering pediatric gene therapy.


Sung-Yun Pai, MD

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Sung-Yun Pai, MD, on Further Research With Lentiviral Gene Therapy for X-SCID

The senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research discussed unmet needs that remain and further research to be done.


Evan Mizerak

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Evan Mizerak, on Developing an ASO Targeting CAPN2 for ALS

The lead of preclinical research at Amylyx Pharmaceuticals discussed the literature supporting AMX0114’s target and its upcoming trial design.


Dan Pollyea, MD, MS

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Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

The hematologist from UC Health discussed the role of allogeneic stem cell transplant at first remission based on risk stratification.


Alba Gonzalez-Junca, PhD

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Alba Gonzalez-Junca, PhD, on Logic-gated CAR-NK Cell Development

The associate director of Research at Senti Biosciences discussed the company's research on using logic-gated CAR-NK cells for the treatment of AML and solid tumors.

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