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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2025

Novel strategies to manage CAR-T cell toxicity.

Arthur Mulvey, Lionel Trueb, George Coukos, Caroline Arber

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Arthur MulveyDepartment of Oncology UNIL-CHUV, Service of Immuno-Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0000-0283-3047
Lionel TruebDepartment of Oncology UNIL-CHUV, Service of Immuno-Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
George CoukosDepartment of Oncology UNIL-CHUV, Service of Immuno-Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8813-7367
Caroline ArberDepartment of Oncology UNIL-CHUV, Service of Immuno-Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland. caroline.arber@unil.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-6440-9970

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune-related adverse events associated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy result in substantial morbidity as well as considerable cost to the health-care system, and can limit the use of these treatments. Current therapeutic strategies to manage immune-related adverse events include interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R) blockade and corticosteroids. However, because these interventions do not always address the side effects, nor prevent progression to higher grades of adverse events, new approaches are needed. A deeper understanding of the cell types involved, and their associated signalling pathways, cellular metabolism and differentiation states, should provide the basis for alternative strategies. To preserve treatment efficacy, cytokine-mediated toxicity needs to be uncoupled from CAR-T cell function, expansion, long-term persistence and memory formation. This may be achieved by targeting CAR or independent cytokine signalling axes transiently, and through novel T cell engineering strategies, such as low-affinity CAR-T cells, reversible on-off switches and versatile adaptor systems. We summarize the current management of cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome, and review T cell- and myeloid cell-intrinsic druggable targets and cellular engineering strategies to develop safer CAR-T cells.

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Cytokine Release SyndromeImmunotherapy, AdoptiveReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesAnimalsCytokinesHumansNeurotoxicity SyndromesCytokinesReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

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