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ArticleOncoimmunology2016

Advances in clinical NK cell studies: Donor selection, manufacturing and quality control.

U Koehl, C Kalberer, J Spanholtz, D A Lee, J S Miller, S Cooley, M Lowdell, L Uharek, H Klingemann, A Curti and 2 more

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Article in Oncoimmunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

U KoehlInstitute of Cellular Therapeutics, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School , Hannover, Germany.
C KalbererDiagnostic Hematology, University Hospital Basel , Basel, Switzerland.
J SpanholtzGlycostem Therapeutics , Oss, the Netherlands.
D A LeeUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Pediatrics , Houston, TX, USA.
J S MillerDivision of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN, USA.
S CooleyDivision of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN, USA.
M LowdellDepartment of Hematology, Royal Free Hospital, UCL Medical School , London, UK.
L UharekHematology and Oncology, Benjamin Franklin faculty of Charité , Berlin, Germany.
H KlingemannNantKwest Inc., Research & Development , Cambridge, MA, USA.
A CurtiDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli", Berlin, University of Bologna , Italy.
W LeungDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , Memphis, TN, USA.
E AliciCenter for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm Sweden; Cell therapies institute, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA; Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.

Funding

Women's CancerP30CA077598 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Douglas Yee · 1998 to 2026
$100.4M
Trial Design and Biostatistical Support CoreP01CA065493 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Mark J Osborn · 1995 to 2026
$48.2M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA065493NCI NIH HHS P30 CA077598
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural killer (NK) cells are increasingly used in clinical studies in order to treat patients with various malignancies. The following review summarizes platform lectures and 2013-2015 consortium meetings on manufacturing and clinical use of NK cells in Europe and United States. A broad overview of recent pre-clinical and clinical results in NK cell therapies is provided based on unstimulated, cytokine-activated, as well as genetically engineered NK cells using chimeric antigen receptors (CAR). Differences in donor selection, manufacturing and quality control of NK cells for cancer immunotherapies are described and basic recommendations are outlined for harmonization in future NK cell studies.

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Clinical NK cell studiesex vivo expansionmanufacturing of NK cell productsquality control

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PMID27141397
PMCPMC4839369

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