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ArticleMolecular therapy. Oncology2025

Engineering a novel HSV-1 strain for oncolytic therapy of solid tumors.

Karina Vázquez-Arreguín, Alex Gonzalez, Amy Webb, Xiaokui Mo, Yoshihiro Otani, Balveen Kaur

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Article in Molecular therapy. Oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors.

Karina Vázquez-ArreguínDepartment of Pathology, Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
Alex GonzalezDepartment of Neurosurgery, UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Amy WebbDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Xiaokui MoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Yoshihiro OtaniDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Balveen KaurDepartment of Pathology, Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.

Funding

The Tumor Microenvironmental Barrier to Effective Viral OncolysisP01CA163205 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Xiaokui Mo · 2013 to 2026
$26.0M
Next Gen Virotherapy for GBMR01NS127473 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Balveen Kaur · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Next generation oncolytic virotherapy targeting AKT and ERK signaling in gliomaR01NS137577 · NINDS · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI Balveen Kaur · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Optimizing oncolytic virus therapy for glioblastomaR61NS112410 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI KAUR, BALVEEN · 2019 to 2020
$775k
Development of murine glioblastoma model for oncolytic HSV therapyR61NS128191 · NINDS · AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY · PI HONG, BANGXING B, KAUR, BALVEEN · 2024 to 2025
$771k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA163205NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127473NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS137577NINDS NIH HHS R61 NS112410NINDS NIH HHS R61 NS128191
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1-derived viruses are being developed for cancer treatment. Here, we describe the isolation of a novel strain of HSV-1 and its engineering to safely harness it as an oncolytic therapeutic. This strain (UT1a) was isolated from a de-identified consented patient biorepository. CRISPR-Cas9-based recombination was utilized to insert bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) genes into the viral

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cancer therapyDNA damageherpes simplex virusirradiationoncolytic HSV-1solid tumor

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PMID40165989
PMCPMC11957669

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