Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 1245-1256 , September 2010

Antitransgene Rejection Responses Contribute to Attenuated Persistence of Adoptively Transferred CD20/CD19-Specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor Redirected T Cells in Humans

  • Michael C. Jensen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
    • Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Michael C. Jensen, MD, Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010-3000.
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  • Leslie Popplewell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
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  • Laurence J. Cooper

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
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  • David DiGiusto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
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  • Michael Kalos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
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  • Julie R. Ostberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
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  • Stephen J. Forman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
    • Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California

Received 26 January 2010 ,Accepted 11 March 2010.

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 Laurence J. Cooper is currently at the Division of Pediatrics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Michael Kalos is currently at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments, page 1256.

PII: S1083-8791(10)00119-9

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.03.014

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 1245-1256 , September 2010