Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Meetings

Early treatment with ruxolitinib led to high response rates in patients with steroid refractory acute graft-vs-host-disease, although benefits with ruxolitinib vs best available therapy were observed regardless of the timing of ruxolitinib administration.

A study did not find a correlation between the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ruxolitinib for the treatment of patients 2 years of age and younger with graft-vs-host disease.

Orca-Q when using myeloablative conditioning with only tacrolimus monotherapy in the haploidentical stem cell transplant setting had acceptable safety and resulted in encouraging outcomes for patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies.

CD22-directed CAR T-cell therapy generated high complete response rates and manageable safety in heavily pretreated patients with large B-cell lymphoma who relapsed following CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy.

Checkpoint inhibitor–based salvage regimens significantly reduced the likelihood that patients with relapsed/refractory classic Hodgkin lymphoma undergoing transplant would need further salvage therapy vs conventional salvage regimens.

Orca-T produced a 100% overall survival rate in 8 patients with hematologic malignancies who received an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant with 7/8 non-permissive HLA mismatched donors.

Ruxolitinib induced clinically meaningful overall survival improvements by decreasing non-relapse mortality rates in patients with acute graft-vs-host-disease.

First-line treatment with itolizumab produced rapid, durable responses and favorable safety in patients with acute graft-vs-host disease.

Timing of severe symptom onset is the only distinct difference between late and classic acute graft-vs-host disease, and long-term outcomes were similar between the two types of disease.

Patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma treated with the CAR T-cell agent idecabtagene vicleucel had comparable efficacy and safety outcomes regardless of whether they had renal impairment, according to findings from a real-world study.

Matthew Frank, MD, PhD, discusses findings from a single-institution phase 1 trial investigating autologous CAR T cells targeting CD22 in adults with large B-cell lymphoma, including those who relapse after or are refractory to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy.

Mayur Narkhede, MD, discusses findings from a pre-planned interim analysis of a phase 2 trial investigating siltuximab for the treatment of cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome related to CAR T-cell therapy in adult patients with hematologic malignancies.

Surbhi Sidana, MD, discusses the feasibility of administering idecabtagene vicleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma with renal impairment.

Nirav N. Shah, MD, discusses findings from a phase 1/2 study of lentiviral bispecific CAR T cells targeting CD20 and CD19 B-cell antigens in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Brexucabtagene autoleucel demonstrated a survival benefit in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia regardless of prior lines of treatment or exposure to blinatumomab or allogeneic stem cell transplant, according to data from subgroup analyses of the ZUMA-3 trial.

The presence of minimal residual disease led to a higher likelihood of relapse in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who underwent hematopoietic cell transplant compared with those who had undetectable MRD pre and post transplant.

Haploidentical donors and posttransplant cyclophosphamide is a comparable alternative to matched unrelated donors for patients with myelofibrosis receiving blood or marrow transplant without matched sibling donors, although matched sibling donors, when available, remain the preferred donor option.

The fully-human scFv CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy JCAR021 elicited durable responses but with a high rate of neurotoxicity when administered at a dose of 7 x 106 cells/kg in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma, according to data from a phase 1/2 trial.

ADI-001, a first-in-class, allogeneic gamma delta1 CAR T-cell therapy, elicited responses and demonstrated a favorable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The dual CD19- and CD20-directed, freshly administered CAR T-cell therapy zamtocabtagene autoleucel elicited a high response rate with deepening responses over time in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The combination of JSP191, fludarabine, and low-dose total body irradiation demonstrated facilitation of full donor myeloid chimerism, clearance of minimal residual disease, and a tolerable safety profile in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome or acute myeloid leukemia.

Administration of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine resulted in heterogeneous immune response in patients with chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD), further highlighting concerns about protection against infection or severe COVID-19 disease in this population

Patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia who underwent matched sibling donor transplants had a significantly higher overall survival at 2 years compared with those who underwent haploidentical stem cell transplant.

The use of 131-iodine generated high rates of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia who did not achieve a complete response following standard therapy.

Evandro D. Bezerra, MD, discusses barriers to enrollment in clinical trials for patients with aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma who have progressed on anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.

Itolizumab decreased levels of cell surface CD6 and increased soluble CD6 in serum in patients with acute graft-vs-host-disease.

Usman Ali Akbar, MD, discusses the systematic review of the efficacy of monoclonal antibodies in adult patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Muhammad Bilal Abid, MD, MRCP, discusses the impact of adaptive lymphodepletion in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma who received CAR T-cell therapy.

Saurabh Dahiya, MBBS, discusses real-world data observed from a long-term follow-up of axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma.

The use of ruxolitinib following an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation was associated with the prevention of serious graft-versus-host disease.