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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Spatial Control of CAR T Cell Activation Using Tumor-Homing Polymers.

Clinton M Heinze, Trey J Pichon, Abe Y Wu, Michael Baldwin, James Matthaei, Kefan Song, Meilyn Sylvestre, Joshua Gustafson, Nathan J White, Michael C Jensen and 1 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. From Bench to Bedside: Emerging Paradigms in CAR-T Cell Therapy for Solid Malignancies.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Clinton M HeinzeDepartment of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Box 355061, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
Trey J PichonDepartment of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Box 355061, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
Abe Y WuDepartment of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Box 355061, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0009-0007-8815-6091
Michael BaldwinSeattle Children's Therapeutics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1920 Terry Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101, United States.
James MatthaeiSeattle Children's Therapeutics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1920 Terry Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101, United States.
Kefan SongDepartment of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Box 355061, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8925-0094
Meilyn SylvestreDepartment of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Box 355061, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4162-9388
Joshua GustafsonSeattle Children's Therapeutics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1920 Terry Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101, United States.
Nathan J WhiteResuscitation Engineering Science Unit (RESCU), Harborview Research and Training Building, Seattle, Washington 98104, United States.
Michael C JensenSeattle Children's Therapeutics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1920 Terry Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101, United States.
Suzie H PunDepartment of Bioengineering and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Box 355061, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1443-4996

Funding

An integrated polymeric carrier for subunit cancer vaccinesR01CA257563 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PUN, SUZIE H., STAYTON, PATRICK S. · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
Synthetic Hemostats for Trauma TreatmentR01HL139007 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PUN, SUZIE H., WHITE, NATHAN J · 2017 to 2020
$2.3M
Traceless, aptamer-based cell isolation for cell therapy applicationsR01EB034235 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Suzie H. Pun · 2023 to 2026
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA257563NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL139007NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB034235
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CAR T cell therapies often lack specificity, leading to issues ranging from inadequate antigen targeting to off-tumor toxicities. To counter that lack of specificity, we expanded tumor targeting capabilities with universal CAR and spatially defined CAR T cell engagement with targets through a combination of synthetic biology and biomaterial approaches. We developed a novel framework, called "

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Immunotherapy, AdoptivePolymersReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesAnimalsCell Line, TumorHumansLymphocyte ActivationMicePolymersReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID39902740
PMCPMC11995850

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