Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to Host Symposium on the Future of Cell and Gene Therapies

Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will host a virtual event on May 6 and 7 that will bring together cell and gene therapy leaders from the two institutions and around the world to discuss the latest achievements in the field, novel strategies, and future developments and applications for chimeric antigen receptor, CAR, T cell therapy and more.

Moffitt Researchers Create Chimeric Antigen Receptor Mutations to Enhance CAR T Cell Activity and Survival

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are working to improve CAR T responses and make those responses more long-lasting for patients. In a new article published in Cancer Immunology Research, the team shares its findings, which show alterations to a specific domain of the chimeric antigen receptor enhances CAR T-cell activity and survival.