Toxicity Management for Anti-Tumor Activity of CARs
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
- Publication Date
- 2015-07-23
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 671,482, filed on Jul. 13, 2012 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 782,982, filed on Mar. 14, 2013, each of which application is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Patients with relapsed and chemotherapy-refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) have a poor prognosis despite the use of aggressive therapies such as allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Barrett et al., 1994, N Engl J Med 331:1253-8; Gokbuget et al., 2012, Blood 120:2032-41) and bi-specific CD19 antibody fragments (Bargou et al., 2008, Science 321:974-7). Chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells targeting lineage-specific antigens CD19 and CD20 have been reported to be effective in adults with CLL and B-cell lymphomas (Till et al., 2008, Blood 112:2261-71; Kochenderfer et al., 2010, Blood 116:4099-102; Brentjens et ...