(MSK/OnCancer blog) July 3, 2019 - Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering and University Hospital in Würzburg, Germany, have identified a simple way to temporarily switch off CAR T cells with a commonly used drug. The approach could potentially help doctors limit the sometimes-severe side effects of this therapy. Chimeric antigen...

(Unum Therapeutics) July 2, 2019 - Unum Therapeutics Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a clinical hold on the Phase 1 trial (ATTCK-20-2) evaluating Unum’s ACTR087 in combination with rituximab following lymphodepleting chemotherapy with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide in patients with...