A method of identifying a subject having cancer who is likely to be responsive to a treatment comprising a compound or predicting the responsiveness of a subject having or suspected of having cancer to a treatment comprising the compound, comprising: providing a sample from the subject; measuring gene expression level of one or more genes in the sample; and identifying the subject as being likely to be responsive to the treatment comprising the compound if the expression level of the gene is different from a reference level, and wherein the gene is a gene involved in mTOR signaling, or the gene is ILF 2 or ILFS.

Provided herein are methods for preparing, producing, processing, culturing, isolating, or making cells suitable for immune or cell therapy, and for their use in cell therapy.

The present invention provides a novel use and methods comprising antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, which bind to a CCR7 receptor for use as a novel combination therapy with a BTK inhibitor and/or a Bcl-2 inhibitor in treatment of hyperproliferative blood malignancies, preferably in B-cell lymphomas, such as CLL. The combination can be used as first line, or in naïve patients not treated before with a BTK inhibitor and/or Bcl-2 inhibitor, or in patients with a BTK-inhibitor and/or Bcl-2-inhibitor refractory/relapsed disease. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments are capable of selectively depleting ex vivo or in vitro malignant cells expressing CCR7 and are capable of impairing/blocking migration of said tumor cells towards CCR7 ligands. These effects are not related to previous or contemporary treatments with a BTK inhibitor and/or a Bcl-2 inhibitor. Similarly, the efficacy of the antibodies is not affected in patients that have relapsed/refractory disease. The use of said antibodies as a monotherapy or as a combination with a BTK inhibitor and/or a Bcl-2 inhibitor for depleting, killing and impairing/blocking migration and activation of tumor cells expressing CCR7 cells is disclosed, thus providing an alternative therapy treating hyperproliferative blood cancers.

Provided herein are methods of using certain biomarkers, such as gene sets (e.g., a leukemic stem cell (LSC) signature), in predicting and monitoring clinical sensitivity and therapeutic response to certain compounds in patients having various diseases and disorders, such as cancer (e.g, lymphoma, multiple myeloma (MM), and leukemia, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML)). Also provided herein are methods of treating diseases using the treatment compounds.

Methods of monitoring progression of multiple myeloma or plasmacytoma, particularly relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, are described. Also described are methods of treating or determining response to a treatment for multiple myeloma or plasmacytoma in a subject.

The present invention relates to antibodies that bind to soluble BCMA (sBCMA). Moreover, the invention relates to a detection system comprising such antibodies. The antibodies or the detection system may be used for detecting or quantifying sBCMA, for diagnosing a disease associated with sBCMA, for patient stratification, monitoring disease progression, and evaluating the therapeutic response.

Provided are methods for determining the risk of toxicity (e.g., neurotoxicity) and/or the likelihood of response to a cell therapy. In some aspects, the methods generally involve assessing parameters or biomarkers (e.g., blood analytes) that are associated with toxicity and/or response. In some aspects, the methods relate to adoptive cell therapy involving the administration of doses of cells for treating subjects with certain B cell malignancies, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), such as relapsed or refractory CLL, or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). The cells for the adoptive cell therapy generally express recombinant receptors such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). In some aspects, the methods can be used to identify or select subjects for treatment, for example, with a cell therapy.

The present invention provides a novel method for detecting an indicator of T cell lymphoma. The method for detecting an indicator of T cell lymphoma includes the step of detecting acetylated tubulin in a T cell that has been collected from a subject.

The present disclosure is directed to antibodies binding to LILRBs and methods of detecting and treating cancer therewith.

The invention relates to the field of minimal residual disease (MRD) diagnostics, which is progressively more applied for the evaluation of treatment effectiveness in patients with a hematological malignancy, such as B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL), B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), and multiple myeloma (MM). Provided are unique reagent compositions with carefully selected and thoroughly tested combinations of antibodies, for ≥8-color flow cytometric stainings as well as for 10-color and 12-color flow cyometric stainings, which can reach sensitivities of at least 10.sup.−4, even down to 10.sup.−5. Also provided are diagnostic kits and methods for detecting MRD.