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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2015

T cell engineering as therapy for cancer and HIV: our synthetic future.

Carl H June, Bruce L Levine

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. From concept to cure: The evolution of CAR-T cell therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  4. TGFβ biology in cancer progression and immunotherapy.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2021
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  11. Pluripotent stem cells progressing to the clinic.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Carl H JuneAbramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-5156, USA Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-5156, USA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-5156, USA cjune@exchange.upenn.edu.
Bruce L LevineCenter for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-5156, USA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-5156, USA.

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAN CTR SUPPORT GRANTP30CA016520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Robert H. Vonderheide · 1985 to 2026
$222.3M
Virus & Reservoirs CoreP30AI045008 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DAVID S METZGER · 1999 to 2026
$78.6M
IMMUNOTHERAPY WITH CAR T CELLSR01CA120409 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JUNE, CARL H., ZHAO, YANGBING · 2006 to 2016
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS 5R01CA120409NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016520NCI NIH HHS R01 CA120409NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI045008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is now well established that the immune system can control and eliminate cancer cells. Adoptive T cell transfer has the potential to overcome the significant limitations associated with vaccine-based strategies in patients who are often immune compromised. Application of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology to cancer, which combines elements of genetic engineering and molecular biology to create new biological structures with enhanced functionalities, is the subject of this overview. Various chimeric antigen receptor designs, manufacturing processes and study populations, among other variables, have been tested and reported in recent clinical trials. Many questions remain in the field of engineered T cells, but the encouraging response rates pave a wide road for future investigation into fields as diverse as cancer and chronic infections.

Indexed as

Cell EngineeringGenetic EngineeringHIV InfectionsHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSynthetic BiologyT-LymphocytesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRecombinant Fusion Proteinscancerimmunotherapysynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID26416683
PMCPMC4634001

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