25 patents
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Combination Therapies of Chimeric Antigen Receptors Targeting B-cell Maturation Antigen and Gamma Secretase Inhibitors
13 Apr 23
Provided herein are BCMA CARs and CAR-T cells, gamma secretase inhibitors, and the combination thereof.
Arun BALAKUMARAN, Cesar Adolfo SOMMER, Trevor Michael BENTLEY, Todd Webster SHEARER, Lesley Mary SMITH
Filed: 15 Jan 21
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Selective Targeting of Host CD70+ Alloreactive Cells to Prolong Allogeneic Car T Cell Persistence
29 Dec 22
Provided herein are CD70-binding proteins comprising a CD70-binding domain and a transmembrane domain, engineered immune cells comprising the CD70-binding proteins, and methods of making and using the same.
Elvin J. LAURON, Siler PANOWSKI, Barbra Johnson SASU, Cesar Adolfo SOMMER, Surabhi SRIVATSA SRINIVASAN, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Shanshan LANG
Filed: 15 Jun 22
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Fasl Expression and Fasr Gene Knockout to Protect Therapeutic Cells from Allogeneic Rejection and Activation-induced Cell Death
8 Sep 22
Compositions, methods, expression vectors and engineered immune cells for improving therapies that entail the administration of allogeneic cells to a patient.
Michael Thomas BETHUNE, Eric Hans GSCHWENG, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Cesar Adolfo SOMMER
Filed: 4 Mar 22
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Methods for Transducing Immune Cells
11 Aug 22
Provided herein are improved methods for transducing immune cells, such as T cells, with retroviral vectors to express exogenous gene products, such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs).
Todd LUMAN, Josergio ZARAGOZA, Abraham GERMANSDERFER, Suma RAO, Yajin NI, Chupei ZHANG, Tom Tao HUANG
Filed: 28 Jan 22
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KNOCKDOWN OR KNOCKOUT OF ONE OR MORE OF TAP2, NLRC5, B2m, TRAC, RFX5, RFXAP and RFXANK TO MITIGATE T CELL RECOGNITION OF ALLOGENEIC CELL PRODUCTS
11 Aug 22
Provided herein are engineered immune cells and populations thereof for administration to patients to treat cancer (e.g., solid tumors or liquid tumors) and other conditions.
Michael Thomas BETHUNE, Eric Hans GSCHWENG, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Cesar Adolfo SOMMER, Michael C YI
Filed: 28 Jan 22
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Formulations and Processes for Car T Cell Drug Products
4 Aug 22
Provided herein are formulations and drug product processes that can improve cell viability and minimize waste of the manufactured formulated cells for a drug product.
Muneeswara Babu MEDI, Zhuojin XU, Jung S. LEE, Yajin NI, Mark W. LEONARD
Filed: 3 Feb 22
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Modified CASPASE-9 Polypeptides and Methods of Use Thereof
28 Jul 22
Provided herein are modified caspase-9 polypeptides, and chimeric caspase-9 proteins containing the modified caspase-9 polypeptides.
Meritxell GALINDO CASAS, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM
Filed: 8 Apr 22
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Protease-activating CD45-GATE Car
21 Jul 22
A reversibly gated effector polypeptide e.g. a chimeric antigen receptor (protease-activating CD45-gate CAR) comprising an extracellular CD45 recruiting domain, a protease-cleavable linker, and a polypeptide comprising an extracellular ligand binding domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain.
Shanshan LANG, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Michael Thomas BETHUNE, Siler PANOWSKI, Nguyen TAN, Yi ZHANG, Barbra Johnson SASU, Zhe LI
Filed: 21 Dec 21
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Methods and Reagents for Characterizing Car T Cells for Therapies
16 Jun 22
Provided herein are methods, kits and reagents for analyzing attributes of engineered immune cells, such as CAR T cells.
Lillian SEU, Melanie L. GEE, Michael A. BOWEN
Filed: 14 Dec 21
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Modified caspase-9 polypeptides and methods of use thereof
10 May 22
Provided herein are modified caspase-9 polypeptides, and chimeric caspase-9 proteins containing the modified caspase-9 polypeptides.
Meritxell Galindo Casas, Thomas John Van Blarcom
Filed: 31 Oct 18
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Inhibitory Chimeric Antigen Receptors
3 Feb 22
ARVIND RAJPAL, Shobha Chowdary Potluri, Laurent Poirot, Alexandre Juillerat, Thomas Charles Pertel, Donna Marie Stone, Barbra Johnson Sasu
Filed: 26 Jul 21
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Chimeric Antigen Receptors with Enhanced Signaling and Activities and Uses Thereof
27 Jan 22
Provided herein are recombinant antigen receptors, for example chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), that comprise modified cytoplasmic domains that provide improved signalling and thereby provide improved performance and safety.
Michael Thomas BETHUNE, Yi ZHANG, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Siler PANOWSKI, Barbra Johnson SASU
Filed: 21 Jul 21
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Bcma Car-t Cells with Enhanced Activities
26 Aug 21
Provided here are engineered immune cells that comprise a constitutively active chimeric cytokine receptor (CACCR) and a B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).
Regina Junhui LIN, Siler PANOWSKI, Cesar Adolfo SOMMER, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Barbra Johnson SASU, Arun BALAKUMARAN
Filed: 24 Feb 21
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Inhibitory chimeric antigen receptors
27 Jul 21
The invention relates to an inhibitory chimeric antigen receptor (N-CAR) comprising an extracellular domain comprising an antigen binding domain, a transmembrane domain, and, an intracellular domain wherein the intracellular domain comprises an Immunoreceptor Tyrosine-based Switch Motif ITSM, wherein said ITSM is a sequence of amino acid TX1YX2X3X4, wherein X1 is an amino acid X2 is an amino acid X3 is an amino acid and X4 is V or I.
Arvind Rajpal, Shobha Chowdary Potluri, Laurent Poirot, Alexandre Juillerat, Thomas Charles Pertel, Donna Marie Stone, Barbra Johnson Sasu
Filed: 9 Nov 15
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Chimeric Cytokine Receptors Comprising TGF Beta Binding Domains
4 Mar 21
Provided herein are chimeric cytokine receptors bearing a binding domain capable of binding a TGF-β ligand or a TGF-β receptor antibody.
Regina Junhui LIN, Siler PANOWSKI, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Shanshan LANG, Barbra Johnson SASU
Filed: 28 Aug 20
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Methods of Preparing T Cells for T Cell Therapy
4 Mar 21
Provided herein are methods for preparing T cells for T cell therapy comprising contacting a cell population at a predetermined cell density, with a concentration of an anti-CD3/CD28 nanomatrix and culturing the cells thereby producing a T cell population comprising an increased percentage of at least one T cell subtype.
Yajin NI, Chupei ZHANG, Mark W. LEONARD, Thomas Charles PERTEL
Filed: 2 Sep 20
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Improved T Cell Compositions and Methods
23 Dec 20
The present invention provides compositions and methods that downregulate major histocompatibility class I molecule cell surface expression, and uses of such compositions and methods for improving the functional activities of isolated T cells (e.g., gene-modified antigen-specific T cells, such as chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells).
Javier Fernando CHAPARRO RIGGERS, Thomas John VAN BLARCOM, Bijan Andre BOLDAJPOUR
Filed: 17 Apr 18
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Anti-talen Antibodies and Uses Thereof
16 Dec 20
The present disclosure provides, among other things, antibodies for detecting TALENs and/or FokI nucleases in a sample and methods of using the same.
Thomas Charles PERTEL, Barbra Johnson SASU
Filed: 11 Jun 20
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Rituximab-resistant Chimeric Antigen Receptors and Uses Thereof
9 Dec 20
Provided herein are polynucleotides encoding chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) comprising a CD19 antigen binding domain that specifically binds to CD19 and is resistant to rituximab binding; and immune cells comprising these CD19-specific CARs, e.g., CAR-T cells.
Thomas Charles PERTEL, Barbra Johnson SASU, Mark W. LEONARD
Filed: 23 Apr 20
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Methods of Manufacturing Allogeneic Car T Cells
28 Oct 20
Described herein are improved media for culturing immune cells, and methods of use thereof.
Diego A. VARGAS-INCHAUSTEGUI, Thomas Charles PERTEL, Barbra Johnson SASU
Filed: 23 Apr 20