Engineering Strategies to Overcome the Current Roadblocks in CAR T Cell Therapy

Last Updated: Monday, June 28, 2021

Various barriers restrict the efficacy and/or prevent the widespread use of CAR T cell therapies. Key challenges include severe toxicities, restricted trafficking to, infiltration into, and activation within tumors, suboptimal persistence in vivo, antigen escape and heterogeneity, and manufacturing issues. The authors discuss novel CAR T cell products being developed to expand the clinical benefits of these treatments.

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Local radiation enhances systemic CAR T cell efficacy by augmenting antigen cross-presentation and T-cell infiltration

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Engineering Strategies to Overcome the Current Roadblocks in CAR T Cell Therapy

JAMA Network Open

Cardiovascular events after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for advanced hematologic malignant neoplasms: A meta-analysis

Blood Advances

Outcome of patients with large B-cell lymphoma treated with tafasitamab plus lenalidomide either before or after CAR T-cell therapy

Blood Advances

Access barriers to anti-CD19+ CAR T-cell therapy for NHL across a community transplant and cellular therapy network

Blood Advances

EASIX and m-EASIX predict CRS and ICANS in pediatric and AYA patients post CD19-CAR T cell therapy

Blood Advances

Local radiation enhances systemic CAR T cell efficacy by augmenting antigen cross-presentation and T-cell infiltration

Blood Advances

Feasibility and favorable responses following investigational CAR T-Cell therapy for relapsed and refractory infant ALL

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Role of bridging RT in relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma undergoing CAR-T therapy: A multicenter study

Frontiers in Immunology

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Blood Advances

Absolute lymphocyte count after BCMA CAR-T therapy is a predictor of response and outcomes in relapsed multiple myeloma

Annals of Medicine

Comprehensive analysis of the efficacy and safety of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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