Hematology

The professor of medicine and director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program at University of Chicago Medicine described the impact of CAR T-cell therapy on the hematologic cancer landscape.

Patients receiving omidubicel also spent less time in hospital following transplant.

Conversion from MRD positivity to MRD-negative disease in a high-dose patient prompted the expansion of the trial population.

The recommendation comes after positive data was released from the recent phase 2 KarMMa trial.

The chief executive officer of Gamida Cell discussed upcoming research on 2 of their investigational agents, GDA-201 and omidubicel, for hematological malignancies.

Corlieve Therapeutics’ lead program, AMT-260, previously demonstrated proof-of-concept in preclinical studies of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Peter Riedell, MD, discussed the need for more research in mantle cell lymphoma and access to novel treatments, including CAR T-cell therapies.

uniQure announced positive results from their phase 3 HOPE-B study of etranacogene dezaparvovec.

The chief executive officer of Gamida Cell discussed the company's novel approach to cell proliferation.

Jasper Therapeutics and Aruvant Sciences are studying the use of JSP191 used with ARU-1801 in patients with sickle cell disease.

James Hoffman, MD, discussed the significance of the approval of ide-cel for patients with multiple myeloma.

Faith E. Davies, MD, discussed the potential of CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Cynata Therapeutics' Ross Macdonald, PhD, discusses the company's pipeline and clinical-phase trials.

The director of the Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center discussed findings from the CARTITUDE studies.

Henry Chi Hang Fung, MD, from the Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses axi-cel's potential in relapsed/refractory FL.

A panel of lymphoma experts discussed 2 recently approved treatments that are providing hope to patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.

A comparative analysis of the ZUMA-5 and SCHOLAR-5 trials revealed improvements in outcomes over currently available therapies.

New studies into chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–engineered natural killer (NK) cells has shown promising results, explained Ulrike Köhl, PhD, MD, professor of immune oncology and director of the Institute for Clinical Immunology at the University of Leipzig in Germany.

Neurologic adverse effect associated with CAR T-cell therapies like ciltacabtagene autoleucel can be managed without long-term lasting effects, as long as they are caught and treated promptly in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Long-term efficacy assessment of brexucabtagene autoleucel demonstrated high rates of MRD negativity and CR rates in pediatric and adolescent patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Bispecific T-cell engagers and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies seem destined to move into earlier lines of therapy for multiple myeloma (MM), speakers at the European Hematology Association 2021 Virtual Congress said.

Treatment with the CAR T-cell therapy ciltacabtagene autoleucel significantly improved outcomes for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma when compared with conventional therapies.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel and tisagenlecleucel have been used mostly to treat patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the outpatient setting.

The incidence of grade ≥2 cytokine release syndrome was lower in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who received anakinra prophylaxis with orvacabtagene autoleucel, a B-cell maturation antigen-targeted CAR T-cell therapy.

Cytovia is exploring several NK cell-based therapies, an emerging class of cell therapies with high potential for fewer side effects and greater anti-tumor activity.

The phase 2 ZUMA-3 trial of brexucabtagene autoleucel showed that it is possible to intervene early to prevent some toxicity, said Bijal Shah, MD, associate member in the Department of Malignant Hematology at Moffitt Cancer Center.

The therapy utilizes LogicBio’s GeneRide technology to insert a corrective copy of the target gene via synthetic AAV vectors.

With 5 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies approved by the FDA, and 299 agents in the pipeline, it’s no surprise that the virtual meeting of the European Hematology Association (EHA) will have a heavy presence of CAR T research being presented in sessions and posters.

Tisagenlecleucel led to high complete response rates that appear durable for patients with follicular lymphoma, prompting a regulatory submission later this year.

The FDA has lifted clinical holds placed on several BB305-based gene therapy programs from bluebird bio.