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An Interview with Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Adair, Jennifer E. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | MS: 2017 is indeed a banner year for cell and gene therapies with the first approvals of CAR therapies, and likely many more to follow. This is the fruit of decades of preclinical research on T-cell engineering. For me, this endeavor started about 30 years ago, when I was a PhD student in immunology after having previously obtained a medical degree. It was at the time becoming clear that the immune system could, on occasion, eliminate tumors. Oncologists had already observed rare, seemingly spontaneous tumor regressions occurring in association with autoimmunity; bonemarrow transplanters were coming to realize that much of the benefit of their transplants was due not to chemotherapy but to T cell–mediated graftversus-tumor responses. The latter was an accidental discovery of the potency of adoptive cell therapy insofar that the motivation for the transplant had been the need for hematopoietic rescue following intensive chemotherapy. The increased relapses that occurred when T cells were removed from the graft (to prevent graftversus-host disease) made it clear that it was the T cells that eliminated residual tumor and prevented relapse. Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD Director for the Center for Cell Engineering Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Starting Page | 530 |
| Ending Page | 533 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1089/hum.2018.29063.msa |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/node/4391/documents/hum.2018.29063.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 29715074 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2018.29063.msa |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Journal | Human gene therapy |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Biography |