Cellectis Publishes Novel Methods to Improve the Safety of CAR T-Cell Therapy and Prevent CRS in the Journal of Biological Chemistry - Seite 2

Mohit Sachdeva, Ph.D., Innovation Team Senior Scientist

Dr. Sachdeva is an experienced cancer biologist with expertise in immuno-oncology, having authored/co-authored approximately 20 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals throughout his career. During his time at Cellectis, he has been studying pathways that could be exploited to engineer potent, yet safer, CAR T-cells using gene editing and targeted integration technologies. After receiving his Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University, he completed a successful post-doc at Duke University.

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor inactivation in CAR T-Cells prevents monocyte-dependent release of key cytokine release syndrome mediators

Mohit Sachdeva^1*, Philippe Duchateau², Stéphane Depil², Laurent Poirot² and Julien Valton^1*

¹Cellectis, Inc., 430 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA
²Cellectis, 8 rue de la Croix Jarry, 75013 Paris, France

About Cellectis

Cellectis is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing a new generation of cancer immunotherapies based on gene-edited T-cells (UCART). By capitalizing on its 19 years of expertise in gene editing – built on its flagship TALEN technology and pioneering electroporation system PulseAgile – Cellectis uses the power of the immune system to target and eradicate cancer cells.

Using its life-science-focused, pioneering genome engineering technologies, Cellectis’ goal is to create innovative products in multiple fields and with various target markets. Cellectis is listed on the Nasdaq (ticker: CLLS) and on Euronext Growth (ticker: ALCLS). To find out more about us, visit our website: www.cellectis.com

Talking about gene editing? We do it. TALEN is a registered trademark owned by Cellectis.

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