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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

Mechanistic data-informed multiscale quantitative systems pharmacology modeling framework enables the clinical translation and efficacy assessment of CAR-T therapy in solid tumors.

Siyuan Yang, Wenjie Wang, Qi Rao, Yiyang Xu, Sujie Zhang, Yuchen Qu, Qiuchuan Zhuang, Jie Mao, Laura Sun, Dong Geng and 2 more

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Siyuan YangSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Wenjie WangDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Legend Biotech, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Qi RaoSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Yiyang XuSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Sujie ZhangSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Yuchen QuSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Qiuchuan ZhuangDepartment of Discovery Research, Legend Biotech, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Jie MaoDepartment of Discovery Research, Legend Biotech, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Laura SunDepartment of Discovery Research, Legend Biotech, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Dong GengEarly-Stage Drug Development Department, Legend Biotech USA Inc, Piscataway Township, New Jersey, USA.
Da XuDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Legend Biotech, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China chenzhao22@njmu.edu.cn da.xu@legendbiotech.cn.
Chen ZhaoSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China chenzhao22@njmu.edu.cn da.xu@legendbiotech.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-8419

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy represents an innovative and potentially revolutionary modality in cancer treatment. Despite their great success in treating blood cancers, CAR-T therapies exhibit significantly lower effectiveness in treating solid tumors. Moreover, the preclinical-to-clinical translation of CAR-T therapies targeting solid tumors is still a challenging task because of their unique "live cell" nature and the substantial variability in patients' pathophysiology.

methodsWe have developed a multiscale quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) model to facilitate the clinical translation of CAR-T therapies in solid tumors. Our mechanistic modeling framework integrates the essential biological features that impact CAR-T cell fate and antitumor cytotoxicity, from cell-level CAR-antigen interaction and activation, to in vivo CAR-T biodistribution, proliferation and phenotype transition, and finally to clinical-level patient tumor heterogeneity and response variability. This modeling framework has been calibrated and validated by multimodal experimental data including published preclinical and clinical data of various CAR-T products and original preclinical data of a novel claudin18.2-targeted CAR-T product LB1908.

resultsWe demonstrated the general utility of this framework in facilitating clinical translation and characterizing the paired cellular kinetics-cytotoxicity response of different antigen-targeting solid tumor CAR-T cell therapies. As an example, we generated model-based virtual patients and prospectively simulated the response to claudin18.2-targeted CAR-T therapies under different dosing strategies, including step-fractionated dosing and convenient flat dose-based regimens, to inform future clinical trial implementation.

conclusionsOur translational QSP platform offers an innovative pathway to integrate multiscale knowledge and inform clinical decision-making of novel solid tumor-targeting CAR-T therapies.

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Immunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsNetwork PharmacologyReceptors, Chimeric AntigenAnimalsHumansTranslational Research, BiomedicalReceptors, Chimeric AntigenAdoptive cell therapy - ACTChimeric antigen receptor - CARPharmacodynamics - PDSolid tumorT cell

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PMID41067881
PMCPMC12516987

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