This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Strategies and challenges in therapeutic development and lab practice”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 4, Fall 2023. They are called: “The inner workings of antibiotics”, “Targeting advances in immunotherapies”, and… Read More
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in the UK have shown that water influx is necessary for T cells to activate and divide in response to a threat. In research published in Nature Communications, the team at the Crick found that… Read More
DDW’s Megan Thomas speaks with Dr Chantale Bernatchez, Director of Cell Therapy Process Development at CTMC, about tumour infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy and what’s on the horizon for this new class of cell therapy. TIL therapy is a form of cancer immunotherapy. It’s an autologous cell therapy, meaning cells are… Read More
Nutcracker Therapeutics’ prostate cancer mRNA drug candidate NTX-470 successfully engaged CD3 T cells, while retaining low bystander activity and reduced off-tumour binding, according to data presented at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting. There are limited treatment options for the 10-20% of prostate cancer patients who develop… Read More
Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Christian Leisner, Chief Executive Officer of antibody therapeutics’ developer CDR-Life about methods to increase access to antigens and improving immunotherapy treatments. RA: Why are existing immunotherapies restricted to certain patient populations? CL:… Read More
Umoja Biopharma has revealed data from an ongoing non-human primate (NHP) study demonstrating effective, durable, and well tolerated in vivo chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell generation using the company’s VivoVec platform. The data include results from the first four NHPs treated in an ongoing study… Read More
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in the UK have characterised a specialised type of immune cell, which plays a key role in protecting and repairing the cells in the healthy human gut. The researchers… Read More
The first quadruplex-edited, allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy candidate has entered clinical trials in the US. The first patient has been treated with Beam Therapeutics’ BEAM-201 as part of a Phase I/II clinical study for the treatment of relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia/T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-ALL/T-LL). Read More
Researchers have identified stem cells in the human thymus for the first time, representing a potential new target to understand immune diseases and cancer. The thymus is a gland located in the front part of the chest, the place where thymocytes (the cells in the thymus)… Read More
Bayer subsidiary BlueRock Therapeutics, and bit.bio have announced a collaboration to discover and manufacture regulatory T cell (Treg) based therapies. Under the terms of the agreement, bit.bio will use its machine learning discovery platform to identify transcription factor (TF) combinations for reprogramming iPSCs into Tregs. Read More
Scientists from Japan have identified regulator CD69, which controls the differentiation of CD8+ T cells within tumour-draining lymph nodes, thereby regulating anti-tumour immunity. Future cancer treatment based on antibodies against CD69 could enhance anti-tumour immune responses of CD8+ T cells and lead to more efficient cancer… Read More
Janssen has presented new data from across its oncology pipeline at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Talquetamab Talquetamab is an investigational GPRC5D-directed bispecific antibody currently in clinical development. Updated results from the Phase II MonumenTAL-1 study show that… Read More
Discover the groundbreaking findings from a study on bispecific T cell engagers conducted by The Jackson Laboratory. This case study delves into the tools available for assessing cytokine release and tumour growth inhibition. Explore the implications of donor-specific responses and how this knowledge can optimise the development of immunomodulatory therapeutics. Read More
Discover the groundbreaking findings from a study on bispecific T-cell engagers conducted by The Jackson Laboratory. This case study delves into the tools available for assessing cytokine release and tumour growth inhibition. Explore the implications of donor-specific responses and how this knowledge can optimise the development of immunomodulatory therapeutics. What… Read More
New research in mice has identified how gut bacteria alter the body’s response to PD-1 checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, currently used for the treatment of 25 forms of cancer. The findings could inform the design of treatments that boost the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy among patients with… Read More
Patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who were treated with the two highest doses of REGN5459, a bispecific antibody targeting BCMA and CD3, experienced a 90.5% overall response rate. This is according to results of a Phase I/II clinical trial presented at the AACR Annual… Read More
