jondoeuk
5 months ago
Two years later, and here are some of my takeaways...
- They know they need to expand into more (rural) areas and that might include pre-built clean rooms. Slides 21-26 show how difficult it is to drive uptake further. "Majority of future growth expected from establishing new ATC's in community." These centres need to establish new relationships with others for apheresis, local ER's for (CRS/ICANS) emergencies and even local freezer storage requirements, which is it's own thing. So much goes into treatment that has nothing to do with manufacturing.
- Forgot ZUMA-12 data was that good. A 86% CR rate and 81% three-year survival from 1L patients. Not sure how to compare that to later line trials, but decades from now, let's hope we are at the point we treat this front line (vs SOC now). Kite said their COGS is
jondoeuk
5 months ago
''There have been more than 250 HIV vaccine trials, most of them early-stage, looking at whether the vaccine is safe and whether we mount an immune response following vaccination. There have been very few vaccine trialsβ10 or soβthat have advanced to the point of looking at efficacy. Of those, one showed 31% efficacy at 42 months. That was the most promising trial, but the efficacy fell off very quickly, and it was only 31% and only against clade B. Whether that would translate to the other clades is not clear.'' https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/why-dont-we-have-an-hiv-vaccine
jondoeuk
9 months ago
The oNKo-Innate team, along with scientists at Kite, have just published a research article https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cti2.1507
Optimised manufacturing dramatically improves lentiviral transduction efficiency of primary human NK cells. The field has progressed greatly with CAR transduction rates in human NK cells (it was ~5% just a few years ago). The oNKo-Innate R&D team were able to raise CAR transduction efficiency to ~80%. After testing various NK cell sources, they conclude that the exponential expansion pre- and post-transduction and high on-target cytotoxicity make PB-derived NK cells a feasible and attractive CAR-NK cell product for clinical utility.
''No doubt CAR-NK cells have faced several challenges in oncology settings, and we hope our new findings assist researchers in addressing some of these challenges while also improving the potential for CAR-NK cell therapies in treating autoimmune disease such as lupus'' said Nicholas Huntington, PhD, oNKo-innate's CSO.