The invention provides vector compositions for delivering improved adoptive T cell therapies.

The invention is directed to a bispecific chimeric antigen receptor, comprising: (a) at least two antigen-specific targeting regions; (b) an extracellular spacer domain; (c) a transmembrane domain; (d) at least one co-stimulatory domain; and (e) an intracellular signaling domain, wherein each antigen-specific targeting region comprises an antigen-specific single chain Fv (scFv) fragment, and binds a different antigen, and wherein the bispecific chimeric antigen receptor is co-expressed with a therapeutic control. The invention also provides methods and uses of the bispecific chimeric antigen receptors.

The present invention relates to the field of adoptive immunotherapy. The invention provides methods for generating phenotypically defined, functional, and/or expandable T cells from pluripotent stem cells engineered through safe genetic modifications. The engineered cells may provide one or more of: 1) targeting a specific predetermined antigen expressed on the cell surface of a target cell in an HLA independent manner, 2) enhanced survival and functional potential 3) off-the-shelf T cells for administration to multiple recipients, eventually across immunogenic barriers, and/or 4) cytotoxic potential and anti-tumor activity.

The invention provides methods of making immune effector cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells) that can be engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), compositions and reaction mixtures comprising the same, and methods of treatment using the same.

The present invention is related to compositions and methods for the regulated and controlled expression of proteins.

The present invention refers to a CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and to its use for treating CD19+ malignancies.

The disclosure relates to mitochondria-enhanced immune cells, their compositions and therapeutic use.

The present invention provides nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, methods and compositions to confer and/or augment immune responses mediated by cellular immunotherapy, such as by adoptively transferring CD8+ central memory T cells or combinations of central memory T cells with CD4+ T cells that are genetically modified to express a chimeric receptor under the control of an inducible promoter. In some alternatives the genetically modified host cell comprises a nucleic acid comprising a polynucleotide coding for a chimeric antigen receptor comprising a ligand binding domain, a polynucleotide comprising a spacer region, a polynucleotide comprising a transmembrane domain, and a polynucleotide comprising an intracellular signaling domain under the control of a drug inducible promoter. Controlling the expression of the chimeric receptor provides for the ability to turn expression on and off depending on the status of the patient. Pharmaceutical formulations produced by the method, and methods of using the same, are also described.

Provided is a humanized CD19 single-chain variable fragment (scFv) having a mutation of valine to glycine in CDR1, comprising VH having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 and VL having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5. Also provided is a CD19 chimeric antigen receptor fusion protein comprising from N-terminus to C-terminus: (i) a single-chain variable fragment (scFv), (ii) a transmembrane domain, (iii) at least one co-stimulatory domains, and (iv) an activating domain. This humanized CD19-CAR-T cells have specific killing activity with secretion of cytokine IFN-gamma in CAR-T cells in vitro and in vivo.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating cancer. For example, a modified cell may include a polynucleotide comprising an NFAT promoter, a nucleotide sequence encoding therapeutic agent, and a nucleotide sequence encoding a VHL-interaction domain of HIF1, wherein the therapeutic agent comprises, for example, IL-12, IL-6, and/or IFN.