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Sang Yoon Moon, PhD, postdoctoral Research Associate, Lions Eye Institute, discussed research with CRISPRa in human fibroblast cultures.

Among 101 patients included in the efficacy analysis, the ORR was 96% and the CR rate was 74.3%.

The director of University of Washington Medicine’s Cancer Vaccine institute discussed results from a phase 1 study presented at ASCO’s 2023 conference.

Follow-up data up to 3 years showed supraphysiologic levels of blood IDUA and decrease of GAGs.

The PhD candidate from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill discussed preclinical research presented at ASGCT 2023.

The associate professor at Medical College of Wisconsin discussed the rationale for the CARTITUDE-4 study and its latest updates.

The study has enrolled 17 patients as of May 2023 and enrollment is expected to complete by the end of 2024.

New overall survival analysis data on Yescarta from ZUMA-7 were presented at the ASCO 2023 meeting.

The associate professor at University College London also discussed unmet needs that remain in r/r B-ALL and another presentation of interest at ASCO’s 2023 conference.

Among 19 patients with r/r B-ALL included in the analysis, all 19 achieved a CR or CRi.

Safety findings were also improved when compared with the previous CARTITUDE-1 study, suggesting the therapy may be better tolerated in earlier lines of therapy.

The director of the Lymphoma Clinical Research Program at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discussed the implications of overall survival data that he presented at ASCO’s 2023 conference.

The study began enrollment in January 2023.

Additionally, promising efficacy signals were reported—namely response rates and disease control rates—in the phase 1 clinical trial (NCT04429087) data that were presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.

The professor of medicine and pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis discussed updated survival data from SPEARHEAD-1.

The associate professor in haemato-oncology at University College London discussed Autolus Therapeutics’ CAR-T, which utilizes a novel fast off-rate CD19 binding domain.

Among 94 patients who were treated with obe-cel in the trial, 76% achieved a CR or CRi.

Among 70 patients who were able to be evaluated for efficacy at 28 days or more, 91% achieved a complete response or a complete response with incomplete hematological recovery.

Follow-up data were presented from the discontinued phase 3 OVAL study.

There were no DLTs observed among the treated patients.

Maria Pia Morelli, MD, PhD, assistant professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, discussed the first-in-human study of Sleeping Beauty TCR-T cells.

Among 49 patients who were included in the trial’s primary efficacy analysis set and received dose-level 2, the CR/CRi rate was 18.4%.

The chief scientific officer at Omega Therapeutics discussed positive preclinical data presented at ASCO 2023.

Genprex also announced preliminary data from the phase 1 portion of the trial evaluating Reqorsa, which is being presented at ASCO’s 2023 meeting.

The scientist at Senti Biosciences discussed developing small molecule-regulated gene circuits.

The chief scientific officer of LocanaBio discussed preclinical data with an AAV-delivered, snRN, exon 51 skipping approach presented at ASGCT 2023.

The assistant professor of microbiology at Penn Medicine discussed research into characterizing type 1 interferon and EGR2 signaling and their effects on CAR T-cell activation.

Florian Eichler, MD, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, discussed efficacy data from the CANaspire clinical trial that he presented at ASGCT 2023 showing reductions in urine NAA levels.