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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years. Could you describe the platform of macrophage biology and cell engineering used by Resolution Therapeutics in developing their cell therapies?

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Navigating the challenges of cell therapies

Drug Target Review

Problem w/ CTs and foundational understanding of Vittoria: can you explore the current limitations of cell therapies and the challenges faced by patients and providers? Currently, only a small percentage of cancers can be effectively treated with cell therapies, and there is little diversity in the currently approved products.

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

What potential advantages does the CD5 modulation strategy offer over traditional CAR-T therapies? MR : Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is very effective in treating patients with B-cell lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma, where we have six FDA-approved drugs.

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Six scientists named as new core institute members at Broad

Broad Institute

At the Broad, he directs the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group , and he is a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and director of bioinformatics at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an associate professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

Broad Institute

We are incredibly grateful to each and every patient who partnered with us, all those involved in their clinical care, and the exceptional team in our lab who made this research possible.” “This work provides a biological foundation for testing more targeted therapies for myocarditis due to an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

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A backpack full of multiple sclerosis therapy

The Pharma Data

While no cure is available for MS, existing disease-modifying therapies in the form of small molecule and protein drugs either directly target the self-reactive immune cells or broadly dampen inflammation. “Current MS therapies do not specifically target myeloid cells. who is a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute.

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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

Earlier this year, the researchers shared their first translational results, describing the immune cell response underlying colon inflammation in patients undergoing ICI therapy. These are home-run, breakthrough therapies, and quite an amazing success story. How big of a problem are these complications from cancer immunotherapy?

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