A Good Manufacturing Practice procedure to engineer donor virus-specific T cells into potent anti-leukemic effector cells

A Good Manufacturing Practice procedure to engineer donor virus-specific T cells into potent anti-leukemic effector cells.

A sequential, two-step procedure in which T-cell-depleted allogeneic stem cell transplantation is followed by treatment with donor lymphocyte infusion at 6 months can significantly reduce the risk and severity of graft-versus-host disease, with postponed induction of the beneficial graft-versus-leukemia effect. However, patients with high-risk leukemia have a substantial risk of relapse early a...

P74. A Good Manufacturing Practice procedure to generate therapeutic numbers of highly pure anti-leukaemic virus-specific T-cells

Background Recently, we have started a clinical trial to treat patients with high risk acute leukaemia with a donor-derived HA-1-TCR transduced virus-specific T-cell product as early as 8 weeks and 14 weeks after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). Donor derived Cytomegalovirus (CMV)and Epstein Bar virus (EBV)-specific T-cells will be isolated using Streptamer based CliniMACS selec...

Sensitivity of Human Leukemic Cells to Carvedilol

Background and Objective: Carvedilol, a non-specific β-blocker, has been used for treatment of hypertension, stroke and congestive heart failure. The therapeutic effects of β blockers in cancer patients have been shown. Carvedilol has considerable anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and anti-angiogenic properties. In this study, the effects of carvedilol on proliferation of human U937 and Molt-4 leuk...

Antigen-Specific T Cells Maintain an Effector

Synthetic biology approaches to engineer T cells.

There is rapidly growing interest in learning how to engineer immune cells, such as T lymphocytes, because of the potential of these engineered cells to be used for therapeutic applications such as the recognition and killing of cancer cells. At the same time, our knowhow and capability to logically engineer cellular behavior is growing rapidly with the development of synthetic biology. Here we...