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The director of the Mass General Brigham Gene and Cell Therapy Institute discussed the history and future of gene therapy in cardiology at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2023.

One serious AE of myocardial infarction may have been related to VERVE-101 therapy while other AEs of fatal cardiac arrest and tachycardia were determined to be unrelated to the therapy.

The median progression-free survival was 11 months and the SCG101 was well-tolerated.

Microsatellite instability (MSI) tumors are frequently found in people with Lynch syndrome, one of the most common hereditary colorectal cancers.

BRL Medicine is also enrolling a phase 1/2 multicenter trial evaluating BRL-201 at lower dose ranges.

The BASECAMP-1 screening study has now identified 28 patients whose solid tumors are positive for HLA-A*02 LOH.

David Rawlings, MD, the director of the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children's Research Institute, discussed findings from several preclinical studies that could help push engineered B-cell therapies towards clinical trials.

Patients with HNSCC had a median overall survival (OS) of 20.8 months and a 12-month OS rate of 59%.

In terms of safety, it was noted that repeated administration of CAR mRNA/LNP was well-tolerated by mice.

CARVac RNA vaccine may amplify the persistence of the BNT211 CAR T-cell therapy.

Excision plans to escalate the trial of EBT-101 to the second dose level in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The therapy has been well-tolerated in the first 3 participants which also showed GCase expression in the plasma.

The director of the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children's Research Institute discussed preclinical research on overcoming limitations of Treg cells through genetic engineering.

The director of the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children's Research Institute discussed findings from several preclinical studies that could help bring engineered B-cell therapies to clinical trials.

Richard James, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Washington and a principal investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute, discussed a potential alternative to T-cell therapy in cancer.

Nadezhda Omelchenko, MD, a research associate at Cancer Center of Southern California in Santa Monica, discussed findings from patients treated with a combination therapy that included NK cell therapy SNK01.

The associate professor at the University of Washington, and principal investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute discussed results from a leukemia mouse model.

The research associate at Cancer Center of Southern California in Santa Monica discussed findings from 3 patients treated with a combination therapy that included NK cell therapy SNK01.

Juan Francisco Cabello, MD, the head of the Pediatric Neurology Fellowship Program at the University of Valparaíso in Chile, discussed factors holding back more widespread adoption of newborn screening for indications treatable with gene therapy.

Sebastian Michels, MD, a postdoctoral fellow and member of the La Spada Lab at University of California, Irvine, discussed how his lab’s findings may open the door to developing RNA therapeutics for ALS.

Juan Francisco Cabello, MD, the head of the Pediatric Neurology Fellowship Program at the University of Valparaíso in Chile, discussed the current state of newborn screening and what needs to change.

Sattar Khoshkhoo, MD, the founding director of the Epilepsy Genetics Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital, spoke about how his lab’s findings may imply a need to rethink epilepsy treatment development.

The postdoctoral fellow and member of the La Spada Lab at University of California, Irvine, discussed findings he presented at ANA’s 2023 conference that may have implications for future RNA therapy development.

The chief scientific officer at Omega Therapeutics discussed the issues with other modes of therapies that OEC therapy may address.

The head of the Pediatric Neurology Fellowship Program at the University of Valparaiso in Chile discussed how a lack of cost-effectiveness may hold back the potential of newborn screening in gene therapy.

Sattar Khoshkhoo, MD, the founding director of the Epilepsy Genetics Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discussed his nonclinical research on disease pathogenesis in MTLE.

The head of the Pediatric Neurology Fellowship Program at the University of Valparaíso in Chile discussed positive impact of newborn screening so far and work that still needs to be done.

The chief development officer of Anixa Biosciences discussed the company’s trial of a CAR-T in ovarian cancer that is looking at the effect of regional administration and lymphodepletion on efficacy.

The chief development officer of Anixa Biosciences discussed how the company is tackling 2 major challenges presented by solid tumors in its ovarian cancer clinical trial.

Adrian Kilcoyne, MD, MPH, MBA, the chief medical officer of Celularity, discussed what the company learned from relitigating results of legacy trials for a mesenchymal stem cell therapy in Crohn disease.