Development of a Trifunctional Self-Renewing Memory CAR T Cell Therapy to Overcome the Heterogeneity and Suppressive Microenvironment of Glioblastoma

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Research Objective This personalized chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy will attack a wider range of cancer cells, and block cancer's defense mechanisms to empower the immune system to…

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Genome editing of human Tregs to enable combinational tolerogenic therapy with T cell-targeted biologics for T1D

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Research Objective Genome-edited autologous regulatory T cells for promoting immune tolerance in combination with T-cell-targeting therapies Impact We focus on type 1 diabetes in this proof-of-concept study, but the therapeutic…

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Gene-corrected human microglia for the treatment of adult onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP)

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Research Objective The research proposed here will support the development of NGL-101, a cell therapy for treating adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP). Impact Successful development of…

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A Treatment for Artemis-deficient Severe Combined Immunodeficiency using Non-Viral CRISPR-driven Safe Harbor Transgenesis in Hematopoietic Stem Cells

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Research Objective A Treatment for Artemis-deficient Severe Combined Immunodeficiency using Non-Viral CRISPR-driven Safe Harbor Transgenesis in Hematopoietic Stem Cells Impact We aim to develop a novel genome editing based therapy…

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An hematopoietic stem-cell-based approach to treat HIV employing CAR T cells and anti-HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies.

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Research Objective We propose to transduce hematopoietic stem cells with vectors that encode chimeric antigen receptors targeting HIV for T cells and anti-HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies for B and/or plasma…

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CAR T cells targeting abnormal N-glycans for the treatment of refractory/metastatic solid cancers

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Research Objective Develop genetically modified chimeric antigen receptor T cells to kill incurable solid cancers by targeting a previously un-targetable tumor associated carbohydrate antigen. Impact Refractory/metastatic solid cancers are almost…

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Defining the Optimal Gene Therapy Approach of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Dedicator of Cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) Deficiency

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Research Objective A new therapeutic option for DOCK8 deficiency using autologous human hematopoietic stem cells modified through either lentiviral gene addition or CRISPR/Cas9 based gene editing. Impact Allogeneic HSCT is…

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