Nabil Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine (USA).
Robust CAR design and sensitive yet realistic functional testing will be required in order to improve the efficacy of CAR T cell therapies targeting solid tumors. We have used the xCELLigence Real-Time Cell Analyzer as a high-throughput platform to test multiple CAR components including extracellular domains (including bi-specifics), signaling endo-domains, as well as next-generation CAR T cell products that are inherently resistant to checkpoint blockade. This platform has proven very sensitive to subtle yet longitudinally meaningful differences in CAR design, and has made it possible to evaluate T cell products in a "stress test" that is more representative of early phase trial requirements.
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