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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2018

Industrializing Autologous Adoptive Immunotherapies: Manufacturing Advances and Challenges.

Rohin K Iyer, Paul A Bowles, Howard Kim, Aaron Dulgar-Tulloch

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
50citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. GMP Manufacturing of Allogenic iPSC-NK Cells for Immunotherapy.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  17. Piloting a scale-up platform for high-quality human T-cells production.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rohin K IyerCentre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Paul A BowlesCentre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Howard KimCentre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Aaron Dulgar-TullochCentre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies, Toronto, ON, Canada.
General Electric (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell therapy has proven to be a burgeoning field of investigation, evidenced by hundreds of clinical trials being conducted worldwide across a variety of cell types and indications. Many cell therapies have been shown to be efficacious in humans, such as modified T-cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Adoptive immunotherapy has shown the most promise in recent years, with particular emphasis on autologous cell sources. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-based T-cell therapy targeting CD19-expressing B-cell leukemias has shown remarkable efficacy and reproducibility in numerous clinical trials. Recent marketing approval of Novartis' Kymriah™ (tisagenlecleucel) and Gilead/Kite's Yescarta™ (axicabtagene ciloleucel) by the FDA further underscores both the promise and legwork to be done if manufacturing processes are to become widely accessible. Further work is needed to standardize, automate, close, and scale production to bring down costs and democratize these and other cell therapies. Given the multiple processing steps involved, commercial-scale manufacturing of these therapies necessitates tighter control over process parameters. This focused review highlights some of the most recent advances used in the manufacturing of therapeutic immune cells, with a focus on T-cells. We summarize key unit operations and pain points around current manufacturing solutions. We also review emerging technologies, approaches and reagents used in cell isolation, activation, transduction, expansion, in-process analytics, harvest, cryopreservation and thaw, and conclude with a forward-look at future directions in the manufacture of adoptive immunotherapies.

Indexed as

autologousbioreactorCAR T-cellscellular therapychimeric antigen receptorimmunotherapy manufacturingNK cellscale-out

Identifiers

PMID29876351
PMCPMC5974219
OpenAlexW2799329993

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