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ArticleNature2025

Interleukin-15-armoured GPC3 CAR T cells for patients with solid cancers.

David Steffin, Nisha Ghatwai, Antonino Montalbano, Purva Rathi, Amy N Courtney, Azlann B Arnett, Julien Fleurence, Ramy Sweidan, Tao Wang, Huimin Zhang and 22 more

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase I
In one paragraph

Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 190 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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190citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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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

190 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Mapping the clinical landscape of multifunctional CAR T cells: Targets, trends, and synergies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  6. Injectable bioinstructive microfoam for rapid bedside/in vivo programming of CAR-T cells.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  10. Glypican-3-targeted bioconjugates for hepatocellular carcinoma: design, engineering, and translational applications.Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents · 2026
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  14. FOXP1 Knockdown Reprograms Th9 CAR-T Cells to Overcome Antigen Escape.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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130 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors.

David SteffinTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Nisha GhatwaiTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Antonino MontalbanoTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Purva RathiTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Amy N CourtneyTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Azlann B ArnettCenter for Advanced Innate Cell Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Julien FleurenceTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Ramy SweidanCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Tao WangDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1957-7160
Huimin ZhangCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Prakash MasandDepartment of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
John M MarisDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8088-7929
Daniel MartinezPathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jennifer PogorilerPathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Navin VaradarajanWilliam A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7524-8228
Sachin G ThakkarCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Deborah LyonCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Natalia LaptevaCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Mei ZhuyongCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Kalyani PatelDepartment of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Dolores Lopez-TerradaDepartment of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Carlos A RamosDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Premal LullaDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Tannaz ArmaghanyDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Bambi J GrilleyTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Stephen GottschalkDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3991-7468
Gianpietro DottiLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Leonid S MetelitsaTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Helen E HeslopDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7049-7698
Malcolm K BrennerDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Pavel SumazinTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Andras HeczeyTexas Children's Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. heczey@bcm.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4263-9115

Funding

Discovering mechanisms of neuroblastoma tumorigenesis to improve patient outcomesR35CA220500 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI JOHN M MARIS · 2017 to 2026
$8.7M
IL-15 and -21 armored GPC3-specific CAR T cells for children with solid tumorsR01CA258866 · NCI · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Andras A. Heczey · 2022 to 2026
$3.1M
The Clinical Translational Research Certificate of Added Qualification ProgramT32GM136554 · NIGMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Melissa Suter, IGNATIA B VAN DEN VEYVER · 2020 to 2026
$3.0M
MusIC: A multi-scale technology for integrating dynamic cellular function and molecular profilesR01GM143243 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI VARADARAJAN, NAVIN · 2021 to 2024
$1.8M
PURPOSE OF THE NGVB CONTRACT IS TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING GENE THERAPY RESEARCH.75N92019D00018 · OD · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Discovery of chemoresistant tumor subclones in pediatric liver cancersR21CA286257 · NCI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SUMAZIN, PAVEL · 2024 to 2025
$413k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA258866NCI NIH HHS R21 CA286257NCI NIH HHS R35 CA220500NHLBI NIH HHS 75N92019D00018NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM143243NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM136554
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interleukin-15 (IL-15) promotes the survival of T lymphocytes and enhances the antitumour properties of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in preclinical models of solid neoplasms in which CAR T cells have limited efficacy

Indexed as

GlypicansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveInterleukin-15NeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesCohort StudiesCytokine Release SyndromeFemaleHumansInterleukin-6Interleukin-6 InhibitorsMaleMiddle AgedGlypicansGPC3 protein, humanIL15 protein, humanInterleukin-15Interleukin-6Interleukin-6 InhibitorsReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID39604730
PMCPMC12704925

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