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CAR T induced resistance in ALL
Ruella M et al. Nat Med. 2018 Oct 1. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0201-9
Key clinical point: Unintentional transduction of a single leukemic B cell induced resistance to CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel) therapy.
Major finding: A patient with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) had frank relapse 9 months after a CTL019 infusion, with more than 90% bone marrow infiltration of chimeric antigen receptor–transduced B-cell leukemia cells.
Study details: A case study of a 20-year-old male with B-ALL undergoing CTL019 therapy.
Disclosures: Study funding was provided by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, the National Institutes of Health, and others. Dr. Ruella and several of his colleagues work under a research collaboration involving the University of Pennsylvania and the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research and are inventors of intellectual property licensed by the University of Pennsylvania to Novartis.
Ruella M et al. Nat Med. 2018 Oct 1. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0201-9.
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