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Eight commonly used immune cell therapies open up a new era of healthcare

Introduction: The era of chemotherapy cannot solve the “pain points” of relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, but the era of new cell drugs has solved them. And this new cellular drug, CAR-T cell therapy, which has become a hot topic in recent years, has opened up a new era of medical treatment, with a market size of trillions of dollars. Immune cell therapy aims to enhance the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. Manufacturing cell therapy requires collecting a specific set of cells from the blood, modifying them to produce more powerful attacks on the patient’s cancer cells, and then re injecting them into the patient’s body. At present, many types of cancer cell therapies are being explored, including CAR-T cells, other genetically modified T cells, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), NK cells, CIK cells, B cells, etc. Extracting immune cells from patients’ bodies and modifying them to make ...
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- October 26, 2024
PNAS | Chen Junjie/Jiang Kuirong/Feng Xu/Jiang Dadi Team Collaborates to Reveal the Key Role of MGA in Tumor Immune Escape

Immune escape is one of the important features of cancer progression and a core challenge that affects the effectiveness of immunotherapy. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have achieved significant success in certain cancers, the overall response rate in solid tumors is still very limited. Exploring the mechanism of tumor immune escape in depth, discovering new targets, and improving ICI efficacy through combination therapy have become one of the key directions of current tumor immune research. On September 19, 2024, Professor Jiang Kuirong and Professor Feng Xu from the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, together with Professor Chen Junjie and Professor Jiang Dadi from the MD Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas in the United States, published a research paper entitled In vivo CRISPR screens identify Mga as an immune target in triple negative breast cancer online on PNAS magazine, systematically expounded the core route of immune ...
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- October 1, 2024
Lilly expanded its autoimmune disease product layout

As one of the blue oceans in the field of autoimmune diseases , inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment drugs are sought after and deployed by many multinational pharmaceutical companies. Recently, Eli Lilly acquired Morphic for US$3.2 billion and obtained its core pipeline α4β7 integrin inhibitor MORF-057, further expanding its influence in the field of gastrointestinal diseases. In addition to Eli Lilly, pharmaceutical giants including AbbVie, AstraZeneca, and Merck have laid out IBD treatment drugs and carried out related mergers and acquisitions. Behind the frequent actions, why do multinational pharmaceutical companies favor IBD treatment drugs so much? The dilemma of traditional treatment IBD is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that mainly affects the digestive system. Its symptoms include severe diarrhea, frequent abdominal pain, blood in the stool, weight loss, and severe cancer. IBD mainly includes two types: ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). The two IBDs have both overlaps and ...
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- September 24, 2024
Milestone! Symptoms completely disappeared, dual-antibody treatment of autoimmune diseases published in the New England Journal of Medicine

Targeting B cells and plasma cells is a key strategy for treating a variety of autoimmune diseases. In recent years, chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has made some progress in autoimmune diseases, and many patients who received CD19-targeted CAR-T therapy have achieved long-term drug-free remission. However, the long production process of this type of therapy, the need for patients to undergo pretreatment in advance, and the inability to flexibly adjust the dose of CAR-T cells after the start of treatment have limited its widespread application. In addition, for some patients, their disease may be caused by long-lived plasma cells that express B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) but not CD19. Therefore, even after receiving CD19-targeted CAR-T therapy, autoimmune antibodies such as antinuclear antibodies and polymyositis-scleroderma-associated antibodies (PM-Scl) still exist in patients. In view of the limitations of CAR-T therapy in the application of autoimmune diseases, researchers have set their ...
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- September 16, 2024
Oncimmune announces new contract with global pharma company

Oncimmune, an autoantibody profiling company providing research services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry to enable the delivery of precision medicine, has announced a new contract with a global pharma company. Following a successful pilot carried out for a major pharmaceutical company, Oncimmune has entered into an agreement for a major new project with the same customer, with a contract value of at least US$1.5m. During the pilot project, Oncimmune was able to demonstrate that it can reliably profile Immunoglobulin E (‘IgE’) autoantibodies in blood serum using its high-throughput bead-based platform. The new project is expected to be delivered over the next six months, with the majority of the revenue therefore falling into FY2025. Martin Gouldstone, CEO of Oncimmune said: “I am delighted that our scientific team has demonstrated our ability to measure IgE, which is much harder to detect in blood serum than other immunoglobulins, using our high-throughput platform.” ...
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- August 22, 2024
Kezar stalls solid tumour trial to focus on autoimmune disease candidate

Clinical stage biopharma Kezar Life Sciences will drop its Phase I solid tumour drug to streamline focus on its lead autoimmune disease drug zetomipzomib. The San Francisco-based biotech shared this update in its 2Q financial results. The candidate, dubbed KZR-261, was being investigated in a Phase I trial (NCT05047536) in patients with solid tumours. Of the 61 enrolled patients, five experienced stable disease for four months or longer, with two of these patients experiencing stable disease for a year or longer. No objective responses have been reported. Enrolment in the trial has been halted, but the 61 patients will continue to have access to KZR-261. All eyes will now be on zetomipzomib, a selective immunoproteasome inhibitor. The candidate is being evaluated in a Phase IIb PALIZADE clinical trial (NCT05781750) for lupus nephritis and a Phase IIa PORTOLA clinical trial (NCT05569759) for autoimmune hepatitis. Everest Medicines secured the Greater China, South ...
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- August 16, 2024
FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Adaptimmune Therapeutics’ Tecelra for Adults with Synovial Sarcoma Who Have Undergone Prior Chemotherapy

By Don Tracy, Associate Editor Regulatory action marks the first engineered cell therapy approved for a solid tumor cancer in the United States.The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Adaptimmune Therapeutics’ Tecelra (afamitresgene autoleucel), an engineered cell therapy that targets resectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma in adults who have undergone prior chemotherapy and are HLA-A*02 positive with MAGE-A4 antigen expression. The treatment, which was approved based on results from the SPEARHEAD-1 trial, marks the first engineered cell therapy for a solid tumor cancer to be approved in the United States, according to the company.1 “The approval of Tecelra is a momentous step in Adaptimmune’s journey to redefine the way cancer is treated and the culmination of a decade of groundbreaking R&D. I want to thank the patients, caregivers, investigators, and clinical teams as well as everyone at Adaptimmune and our partners who made possible this watershed moment for cell therapy ...
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- August 6, 2024
Adaptimmune’s Tecelra gains accelerated approval for synovial sarcoma

Oxford-based cell therapy company Adaptimmune Therapeutics has received accelerated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Tecelra (afamitresgene autoleucel) for treatment of synovial sarcoma. Tecelra is the first engineered cell therapy for solid tumours approved in the US, and represents the first therapy option against synovial sarcoma in more than a decade. It is indicated to treat adults with unresectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma who have received prior chemotherapy, and whose tumours express the MAGE-A4 antigen. Additionally, the tumours need to have a certain HLA type— HLA-A*02:01P, -A*02:02P, -A*02:03P, or -A*02:06P positive. The approval was granted based on results from the Phase II SPEARHEAD-1 trial (NCT04044768). Amongst 44 patients with synovial sarcoma, the overall response rate (ORR) to treatment was 43% with a median duration of response of six months (95% CI: 4.6, not reached). Continued approval remains subject to verification of clinical benefit in further trials. ...
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- August 5, 2024
Artiva’s IPO Reels In $167M to Bring NK Cell Therapy to Autoimmune Diseases

Lupus is the lead autoimmune indication for Artiva Biotherapeutics, which has an early-stage clinical trial underway. Artiva’s allogeneic cell therapies are based on natural killer cells. By Frank VinluanCell therapy first reached patients as treatments for cancer. Artiva Biotherapeutics is part of a growing group of companies working to bring cell therapy to autoimmune disease, and its IPO has raised $167 million for clinical trial plans. Artiva priced the IPO at $12 per share, which was below the $14 to $16 per share price range the biotech set in preliminary terms last week. However, it boosted the deal size by increasing the number of shares in the offering. The 8.7 million shares it initially planned to offer would have raised $130.5 million at the proposed pricing midpoint. The company was able to raise more by selling 13.92 million shares. The shares of San Diego-based Artiva shares debuted on the Nasdaq ...
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- July 23, 2024
KCL leads first guidelines on immune monitoring for hard-to-treat blood cancer

Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of blood cancers that currently affect more than 7,000 people in the UK King’s College London (KCL) has led the publication of first-in-their-kind guidelines that aim to standardise how clinicians measure the immune response of patients living with a hard-to-treat form of blood cancer. The new guidelines will help identify which patients could respond to certain types of therapies, as well as better categorise patients based on whether their immune response is autoimmune or autoinflammatory to determine the choice of therapy and clinical outcome. Affecting more than 7,000 people in the UK, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of blood cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature or become healthy blood cells, causing them to die in the bone marrow or just after entering the bloodstream. Risks associated with MDS can include an increased likelihood of infections, anaemia, bleeding ...
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- July 19, 2024

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