The present invention relates to a novel chimeric antigen receptor and to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating containing the same.

The present disclosure relates to a novel platform for immunotherapy which combines CAR engineered γδ T cells with armoring interleukin IL-18 that can be expressed constitutively or inducibly, or with a chimeric cytokine receptor comprising the endodomain of the IL-18 receptor. The system/platform and the associated methods according to the present disclosure have advantages such as increased immune cell potency and persistence for therapeutic applications.

Disclosed are bispecific compounds (degraders) that target ITK or a zinc finger (ZnF) protein for degradation. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the degraders and methods of using the compounds to treat diseases and disorders characterized or mediated by ITK or ZnF protein activity.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to compositions and methods of enhancing lymphocytes' ability to treat cancer patients. Embodiments relate to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), a nucleic acid encoding an Oxygen-Dependent Degradation domain (ODD), and a nucleic acid encoding one or multiple sequences of Hypoxia-Response Element (HRE).

The present invention relates to an antibody specific for CD22 and uses thereof, and more particularly to an antibody that specifically binds to CD22, a chimeric antigen receptor comprising the antibody, a CAR-T cell expressing the chimeric antigen receptor, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases mediated by cells expressing CD22 including the same.

It was confirmed that the antibody selected in the present invention specifically recognized CD22-expressing cells, and the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and CAR-T cells targeting CD22 using the CD22-specific antibody not only effectively bound to CD22, but also activated CAR-T cells bound to CD22. In addition, since it was confirmed that the CAR-T cells of the present invention effectively kill CD22-expressing cells, the CD22-specific antibody, the chimeric antigen receptor targeting CD22, and CAR-T cells of the present invention can be usefully used as a composition for preventing or treating diseases relating to CD22 expression.

The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for enhancing the immune response toward tumor and pathogen antigens. It relates to immunoresponsive cells comprising two or more chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), wherein the CARs comprise different intracellular signaling domains, in particular, the intracellular signaling domains of the CARs comprise different co-stimulatory molecules.

An exemplary combination drug includes (a1) an immunoresponsive cell expressing interleukine-7, CCL19, and a cell surface molecule that specifically recognizes a cancer antigen or (a2) one or more kinds of cells, one or more kinds of nucleic acid delivery vehicles, or a combination thereof, which cooperatively include a nucleic acid encoding interleukine-7 and a nucleic acid encoding CCL19; and (b) an immunosuppression inhibitor, and the drug is for use in treatment of a cancer in a subject. An exemplary immunoresponsive cell expresses interleukin-7, CCL19, an immunosuppression inhibiting polypeptide, and a cell surface molecule that specifically recognizes a cancer antigen.

The disclosure provides immune cells comprising a first activator receptor specific to mesothelin and a second inhibitory receptor specific to a ligand that has been lost in a mesothelin-positive cancer cell, and methods of making and using same for the treatment of cancer.

The present invention discloses chimeric antigen receptors that specifically recognize and bind to SLe A carbohydrate antigen with high specificity and selectivity. The invention further provides lymphocytic cells, such as T cells, comprising said CARs, compositions comprising said cells or CARs as well as uses thereof.

A novel preparation method for a universal CAR-T cell targeting a T-cell lymphoma cell, the universal CAR-T cell prepared by means of the method and a biological product comprising the universal CAR-T cell. The preparation method for the universal CAR-T cell targeting a T-cell lymphoma cell comprises: obtaining a T cell from a human donor having a healthy lymphatic system, and then disrupting a TRAC genome region and a B2M genome region in the T cell by means of a gene editing technology, so that CAR molecules targeting the T-cell lymphoma cell TCRα/β are stably expressed in the T cell. The universal CAR-T cell targeting a T-cell lymphoma cell prepared by means of the preparation method eliminates the natural TCR expression of a T cell, greatly reduces the graft-versus-host reaction, and meanwhile, also greatly reduces the immunogenicity thereof, and can continuously and efficiently kill the T-cell lymphoma cell.