BioEclipse combines two approaches - an immune cell called a cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell and a virus engineered to kill cancer cells called an oncolytic virus (OV) - to create…
IPEX syndrome is a rare condition where the body can't control or restrain an immune response, so the person's immune cells attack their own healthy tissue. The syndrome mostly affects…
Dr. Wu and his team at Stanford University will use hESCs to generate cardiomyocytes (CM), a type of cell that makes up the heart muscle. The newly created hESC-CMs will…
Dr. Matthew H Porteus and his team at Stanford will test an immunotherapy cell approach using a therapy that is enriched with specialized immune cells called type I regulatory T…
Crystal Mackall, M.D., and her team at Stanford University will modify a patient's own T cells, an immune system cell that can destroy foreign or abnormal cells. The T cells…
Gary Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D., and his team at Stanford University are conducting a clinical trial to test a therapy for motor disabilities caused by chronic ischemic stroke. While "clot busting"…
ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing the muscles in the body to gradually weaken, leading to…
Immune-Onc Therapeutics will conduct a clinical trial for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), both of which are types of blood cancer. AML affects approximately 20,000…
City of Hope will conduct a clinical trial for children with malignant brain tumors. Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor of childhood, with roughly 5,000 new diagnoses per…
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