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Among patients with refractory large B cell lymphoma (LBCL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy appears to yield superior long-term clinical outcomes to those seen with standard salvage therapy regimens, according to an analysis published in Blood Advances. Treatments for LBCL, the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtype, have improved over the...
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has demonstrated effectiveness and safety in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), according to a meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Medical Sciences. RRMM treatments have come a long way and have drastically improved overall survival, but the disease remains incurable. CAR-T therapy has led to...
MADISON — A fundamental question about how sugar units are strung together into long carbohydrate chains has also pinpointed a promising way to target new medicines against tuberculosis. Working with components of the tuberculosis bacterium, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison identified an unusual process by which the pathogen builds...
DURHAM, N.C. — Restricting carbohydrates, regardless of weight loss, appears to slow the growth of prostate tumors, according to an animal study being published this week by researchers in the Duke Prostate Center. “Previous work here and elsewhere has shown that a diet light in carbohydrates could slow tumor growth,...
DUBLIN, Ohio – Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) today announced that LYMPHOSEEK® (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) injection – the first and only radiopharmaceutical agent specifically designed for targeted lymphatic mapping and guiding sentinel lymph node biopsies (SLNB) – has been approved for pediatric use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “This new indication...
CALGARY — Illisha and Ian Patterson can barely recall parts of the painful and exhausting fog they moved through two years ago, when they first tried caring for their terminally ill daughter Cassandra from home. Gripped with grief and fear over her rare genetic disorder, they would face up to...
– Series A financing co-led by Third Rock Ventures, RTW and Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund, and includes new investors Nextech, Janus Henderson Investors, Ally Bridge Group, Wellington Management, T. Rowe Price, Cormorant Asset Management and Piper Heartland with participation from existing seed investors – Initial Phase 1 results with CARGO’s CD22 CAR T-cell therapy demonstrated durable complete responses in greater than 50% of patients with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) that is relapsed/refractory (R/R) to CD19 CAR T-cell therapy. CARGO plans to commence Phase 2 pivotal trial of CRG-022 (CD22 CAR) in mid-2023 in patients with LBCL that is R/R to CD19 CAR T-cell therapy – CD22 CAR has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the FDA, which is intended to expedite the development and review of drugs for patients with significant unmet need – CARGO Therapeutics was launched in 2021 by Samsara BioCapital in collaboration with CAR T pioneers, Crystal Mackall, MD, and Robbie Majzner, MD, and accomplished cancer advocate, Nancy Goodman, JD