Provided herein are compositions and methods for reducing neuroinflammation and treating neurodegenerative diseases using proteinase inhibitors. The invention also provides methods for reducing post-injury scar formation in the central nervous system.

Immune cells, including T cells, expressing a chimeric antigen receptor targeted to CD45 are described. In some cases, the immune cells lack a functional CD45 gene. In some cases, the immune cells also include a modification (a suicide sequence) that allows the cells to be killed in vivo. The immune cells are useful for treating a variety of cancers.

Hypoimmunogenic cell lines useful in enhancing, invoking and/or stimulating an immune response and methods for their use and production are provided.

The present invention provides improved and/or shortened processes and methods for preparing TILs in order to prepare therapeutic populations of TILs with increased therapeutic efficacy for the treatment of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), wherein the NSCLC is refractory to treatment with an anti-PD-1 antibody and/or anti-PD-L1 antibody and/or VEGF inhibitor, or wherein the NSCLC has a predetermined tumor proportion score (TPS).

The present invention relates to, inter alia, compositions and methods, including engineered T cells that express chimeric antigen receptors and heterologous chimeric proteins that find use in the treatment of cancer.

Methods of generating an isolated population of non-graft versus host disease (GVHD) inducing cells comprising a central memory T-lymphocyte (Tcm) phenotype, the cells being tolerance inducing cells and/or endowed with anti-disease activity, and capable of homing to the lymph nodes following transplantation, are disclosed. Cells generated by the methods, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are also disclosed.

The present disclosure provides modified immune cells or precursors thereof (e.g. T cells) comprising chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) capable of binding human IL13R2. Also provided are bispecific CARs, parallel CARs, tandem CARs, BiTEs, BiTE/CARs, and BiTE/BiTEs. Compositions and methods of treatment are also provided.

Provided are methods and compositions for obtaining functionally enhanced derivative effector cells obtained from directed differentiation of genomically engineered iPSCs. The iPSC-derived effector cells provided herein have stable and functional genome editing that delivers improved or enhanced therapeutic effects. Also provided are therapeutic compositions and the use thereof comprising the functionally enhanced derivative effector cells alone, or with antibodies or checkpoint inhibitors in combination therapies.

Described herein is an engineered cell adhesion molecule. The engineered cell adhesion molecule is a fusion protein comprising: an extracellular binding domain comprising a first binding moiety, a transmembrane domain and an intracellular domain that is capable of signaling to and reorganize the cytoskeleton of the cell upon specific binding of the first binding moiety to a second binding moiety. Various compositions, cells and methods that employ the cells are also described.

A method for treating or reducing the incidence of recurrence of cancer, benign tumors, or HPV-associated lesions, including skin cancer, and particularly squamous cell carcinoma (SCC and basal-cell carcinoma, by administering to a patient one or more doses of HPV recombinant vaccine as a first active therapeutic agent in combination with a second active therapeutic agent administered concomitantly or as a fixed-dose combination composition.