237 results about "Immune effector cell" patented technology

The invention provides compositions and methods for treating cancer by using immune effector cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells) engineered to conditionally express an agent which enhances the immune effector response of an immune effector cell that expresses a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR). The conditional agents described herein include agents that target a cancer associated antigen, e.g., a CAR, agents that inhibit one or more checkpoint inhibitors of the immune response, and a cytokine.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for preventing graft versus host disease (GVHD) in subjects receiving donor cells. In particular, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptides are disclosed that can be used with adoptive cell transfer suppress alloreactive donor cells. Also disclosed are immune effector cells, such as T cells or Natural Killer (NK) cells, that are engineered to express these CARs. Therefore, also disclosed are methods of suppressing alloreactive donor cells in a subject receiving transplant donor cells that involves adoptive transfer of the disclosed immune effector cells engineered to express the disclosed CARs.

The invention provides immune effector cells (for example, T cells, NK cells) that express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and compositions and methods thereof.

Provided herein are chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) for cancer therapy, and more particularly, CARs containing a scFv from an anti-ROR-1 monoclonal antibody. Provided are immune effector cells containing such CARs, and methods of treating proliferative disorders.

Compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of a cancer associated antigen are disclosed. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to a cancer associated antigen as described herein, SHP inhibitory molecules, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant immune effector cells comprising the CARs and SHP inhibitory molecules. Methods of administering a genetically modified immune effector cell expressing a CAR that comprises an antigen binding domain that binds to a cancer associated antigen and a SHP inhibitory polypeptide are also disclosed.

The present disclosure features modified immune effector cells (e.g., T cells or NK cells) having increased resistance to inhibition of an immunosuppressive agent relative to unmodified immune effector cells, compositions comprising the same, and methods of using the same.

Provided herein are chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) for cancer therapy, and more particularly, CARs containing a scFv from a CD33 monoclonal antibody. Provided are immune effector cells containing such CARs, and methods of treating proliferative disorders such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and relapsed or refractory AML.

The present invention relates generally to the use of LSD1 inhibitors in connection with use and manufacture of immune effector cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells), e.g., engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), to treat a subject having a disease, e.g., a disease associated with expression of a tumor antigen.

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods comprising recombinant particles suitable for specifically delivering one or more chimeric antigen receptors to immune effector cells in vivo.

The present application provides single-domain antibodies targeting BCMA, and chimeric antigen receptors (such as monovalent CAR, and multivalent CAR including bi-epitope CAR) comprising one or more anti-BCMA single-domain antibodies. Further provided are engineered immune effector cells (such as T cells) comprising the chimeric antigen receptors. Pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods of treating cancer are also provided.

Provided are anti-Claudin-6 antibodies (e.g., VHH domain antibodies), and a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that binds to Claudin-6 comprising same in an extracellular antigen binding domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular signaling domain. Immune effector cells transduced with the disclosed CAR constructs can be used for cancer immunotherapy.

The present invention relates to human CD3 antigen-binding polypeptides and their preparation and use in the treatment and / or diagnosis of various diseases, and also relates to bispecific antibody molecules capable of activating immune effector cells and their use in diagnosis and / or treatment of various diseases.

The present invention relates to combination therapies for modulating the tumor microenvironment and enhancing infiltration of immune cells into the tumor microenvironment with a bispecific anti-EGFR / c-Met antibody in combination with a PD-(L) 1 axis inhibitor. The invention also relates to combination therapies for inhibiting EGFR and MET signaling pathways in tumor cells, and targeting tumor cells expressing EGFR and MET to be disrupted by immune effector cells such as natural killer cells and macrophages by antibody dependent cytotoxicity (ADCC) and cell gnawing mechanisms, respectively.

The invention relates to a CD19 and CD70 targeted double-target chimeric antigen receptor and application thereof, the CD19 and CD70 targeted double-target chimeric antigen receptor comprises an extracellular antigen binding domain, a hinge region, a transmembrane domain, an intracellular costimulatory domain and an intracellular signal transduction domain, and the extracellular antigen binding domain has specific binding ability to CD19 and CD70. The double-target chimeric antigen receptor structure has a treatment effect of targeting double antigens or single antigens, can be used for preparing immune effector cells targeting CD19 and CD70, and provides a treatment or improvement approach for diseases related to CD19 and CD70 double expression or CD19 / CD70 single expression.

Methods are provided for targeting cells for depletion, including without limitation tumor cells such as solid tumor cells, in a regimen comprising contacting the tumor and immune effector cells with an effective dose of an anti-MSDC agent that reduces the abundance, immunosuppressive activity, or tumor recruitment of CXCR2+ granulocytic-myeloid derived suppressor cells, for example, an inhibitor of CXCR2; in combination with an effective dose of an inhibitor of CD47 / SIRPα signaling.

Disclosed are methods and compositions related to chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that recognize Tissue Factor (TF). Specifically, disclosed are CARs that comprise fVII or a functional fragment thereof. Also disclosed are immune effector cells comprising the CARs disclosed herein.

The present disclosure pertains to methods of making immune effector cells (for example, T cells or NK cells) that express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and compositions generated by such methods. Also disclosed herein are methods of using such compositions for treating a disease, for example, cancer, in a subject.

The invention provides an antibody specifically binding to CLL-1 or an antigen binding fragment thereof, a multispecific antigen binding molecule, a chimeric antigen receptor, an immune effector cell, a nucleic acid fragment, a carrier, a host cell, a pharmaceutical composition, a kit, a preparation method and application thereof in disease treatment and CLL-1 detection.

This application provides a BCMA-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising a BCMA-binding domain and an intracellular costimulatory domain derived from DAP10. Also provided are engineered immune effector cells (e.g., NK cells) containing the chimeric antigen receptor. Pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and methods for treating cancer are also provided.

The present invention relates to the technical field of immunotherapy. The present invention provides a single-domain antibody targeting mesothelin, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting mesothelin constructed using the single-domain antibody, and an engineered immune effector cell comprising the CAR. The present invention also provides the use of the single-domain antibody targeting mesothelin, the chimeric antigen receptor, and the engineered immune effector cell comprising the CAR in the preparation of a medicament for diagnosing, preventing, and / or treating a disease or disorder associated with mesothelin expression.

The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology and immunooncology. The invention discloses a bispecific antibody. The bispecific antibody comprises an antibody, an antibody fragment or a single-chain variable fragment for recognizing NGcGM3 ganglioside on tumor cells and an antibody, an antibody fragment or a single-chain variable fragment for recognizing a CD3 antigen on human immune effector cells. These bispecific antibodies are characterized in that they are capable of mediating selective cytotoxicity against NGcGM3-positive tumor cells, rather than normal cells capable of expressing the gangliosides, and allow recruitment of not only T lymphocytes but also NKT. The bispecific antibodies of the invention, as well as the nucleic acids encoding them, are useful for the treatment of lymphoproliferative diseases and solid tumors expressing NGcGM3.

The present invention provides anti-claudin 18.2 nanobodies or their binding fragments. The antibody exhibits good specificity, and immune effector cells targeting claudin 18.2 prepared using the antibody show good therapeutic efficacy in treating or improving diseases with positive claudin 18.2 expression.

Provided herein are antibodies and antigen-binding fragment thereof targeting GPC3, and chimeric antigen receptors having one or more anti-GPC3 antigen-binding fragments thereof. Further provided are engineered immune effector cells (e.g., T cells) expressing the chimeric antigen receptors and methods of use thereof.

Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions for treatment of cancer, autoimmune disorders, and / or infectious disease. In particular embodiments, antigen expression on target cells is increased with epigenetic modulators in conjunction with immune effector cells engineered to express a heterologous molecule that targets the target cells. In specific embodiments, the epigenetic modulators are used in conjunction with NK cells expressing a chimeric antigen receptor that targets a cancer antigen, an antigen associated with an autoimmune disorder, or an antigen associated with a pathogen.

The invention provides a system that comprises pharmaceutical agents for use in immunotherapy for reducing the side-effects of an antigen-recognizing receptor against antigen-expressing non-target cells in an individual. The system includes an antigen-recognizing receptor that specifically recognizes an antigen on target cells and at least on one hematopoietic cell type in the individual. The antigen-recognizing receptor is exemplified by chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) be expressed on the surface of an immune effector cells. The system also includes hematopoietic cells resistant to recognition of the same antigen by the antigen-recognizing receptor.

The present invention discloses a nucleic acid construct for CAR cell therapy, its lentiviral vector, cell preparation and application. Among them, a nucleic acid construct for CAR cell therapy includes a signal peptide, an antigen-binding region, an extracellular hinge region, a transmembrane domain and an intracellular signaling domain connected in series in sequence, and the intracellular signaling domain is composed of DAP10CD, CD137CD and CD3ζSD. A lentiviral vector contains the gene of the nucleic acid construct for CAR cell therapy. A cell preparation is an immune effector cell into which the aforementioned lentiviral vector is introduced. An application of the cell preparation in cancer treatment. The cell preparation prepared by the present invention has higher activity compared with immune cell preparations constructed with other CAR structures. In particular, NK cells modified with this type of CAR structure have extremely high killing ability against tumor cells expressing the target target (such as breast cancer cells expressing Her-2).

Provided are therapies comprising immune effector cells, such as T cells, engineered to express an antigen receptor, such as a T cell receptor or a chimeric antigen receptor.SOLUTION: It is demonstrated that antigen receptor-engineered immune effector cells can be generated in vitro / ex vivo as well as in vitro by delivering a nucleic acid encoding an antigen receptor for genetic modification to a cell using a particle comprising the nucleic acid and a targeting molecule for targeting the immune effector cell, wherein the targeting molecule is a designed ankyrin repeat protein (DARPin). In particular, DARPins are provided that are high affinity binders for CD8 binding to CD8 receptors on human and non-human primate (NHP) cells. Nanoparticles functionalized with CD8 targeting DARPins (CD8 - DARPins) can deliver genes exclusively and specifically to human CD8 + T cells in vitro and in vivo.SELECTED DRAWING: None

The invention provides a double-target chimeric antigen receptor, an immune effector cell and application. The invention discloses a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting IL13Ra2 binding protein and EGFRvIII binding protein, an immune effector cell modified by the CAR, a preparation method of the CAR and application of the CAR in tumor inhibition.

The present invention provides a double-target chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), an immune effector cell, and a use. Disclosed in the present invention are a CAR targeting an IL13Ra2 binding protein and an EGFRvIII binding protein, an immune effector cell modified by the CAR, a preparation method therefor, and a use thereof in inhibition of tumors.