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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.

The autologous CAR T-cell therapy A2B530 is being investigated for solid tumors in the multicenter, first-in-human, phase 1/2 EVEREST-1 study.

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%.

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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.

In more positive news, the company’s phase 2 trial for treating DMD will enroll patients in the second half of 2023.

This is the second IND clearance for CABA-201, which previously received clearance for evaluation in systemic lupus erythematosus, and now for active idiopathic inflammatory myopathy—also known as myositis.

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

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The promising preclinical data, observed in an accurate model of brain metastases, support initiation of a phase 1 trial.

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

The BLA has a PDUFA action date of November 25, 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.

The Type II variation application for ciltacabtagene autoleucel in adult patients with relapsed and lenalidomide-refractory multiple myeloma is supported by data from the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 trial.

The senior scientist at Tune Therapeutics discussed preclinical research presented at the ASGCT 2023 meeting.

Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT) awarded The Edward Netter Leadership Award to Crystal Mackall, MD, of Stanford University.

There were no dose-limiting toxicities, serious adverse events, nor infusion-related reactions among 6 patients treated with ENCell’s investigational EN001 therapy.

The principal investigator at Seattle Children’s Research Institute discussed her lab’s preclinical research on nonviral delivery methods for gene editing tools in the context of treating hemophilia A.