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The best response was very good partial response in 3 of 5 participants.

Adipose-derived MSCs did significantly increase salivary flow rate from baseline in patients with previous head and neck cancer.

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The cells showed activity toward PDAC cells as well as cancer-associated fibroblasts, which may address challenges with the tumor microenvironment.

Nirav Shah, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin, discussed LV20.19, a bispecific CD19/CD20-targeted CAR-T being evaluated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and Richter’s transformation.

The FDA’s decision was based on data from the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 clinical trial (NCT04181827).

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The approval comes a couple weeks after ODAC voted in favor of Abecma’s benefit-risk profile and sBLA.

Investigators observed no notable toxicities including cytokine release syndrome, neurotoxicity or graft-versus-host disease.

Uttam Rao, MD, MBA, a transplant physician at St. David's South Austin Medical Center of Sarah Cannon, discussed research comparing patient outcomes on different conditioning regimens for CAR-T.

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Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, the endowed chair in cellular and molecular medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed how there is still much room for growth for RNA therapeutics despite progress so far.

Zever-cel is being assessed in the phase 2 LUMMICAR-2 trial (NCT03915184) in North America, previously reporting results of an ORR of 100% among 11 patients.

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Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, the endowed chair in cellular and molecular medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed her research on siRNA technology.

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Notably, the combination therapy, referred to as SYNCAR-001 + STK-009, will be administered in the trial without the use of lymphodepletion.

The company noted that it plans to submit the BLA in the second quarter of 2024.

In March 2024, the FDA approved the CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel (Breyanzi) as a treatment for relapsed or resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).

John Ligon, MD, an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine, discussed his view of the main priorities for research in this area.

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John Ligon, MD, an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine, discussed his team’s early findings on CAR-T and fertility from CIBMTR centers.

At the 2-month follow-up PET/CT scan, the patient showed a 6.6% reduction in tumor size.

In February 2024, the FDA approved a tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy called lifileucel for people with advanced melanoma.

Cita-cel, approved as Carvykti, is currently under review for an indication expansion as an earlier line of therapy, which the FDA will decide on by April 5, 2024.

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Breyanzi was approved for the expanded indication under the accelerated approval pathway.

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The Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College discussed Orca-T cell therapy and next steps assessing it.