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CARISMA Therapeutics to Present Data at The American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting
- First study evaluating CAR-macrophages in fully immunocompetent solid tumor mouse models shows significant tumor control, increased survival, and induction of anti-tumor immunity
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PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ CARISMA Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative immunotherapies, announced study findings accepted for virtual presentation at The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 10 – Thursday, April 15. The accepted data reinforces the potential of CARISMA s proprietary chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) platform, as well as the importance of evaluating CAR-monocytes (CAR-Mono) as a novel and exped
How do natural disasters shape the behavior and social networks of rhesus macaques? A team of researchers from Penn, the University of Exeter, and elsewhere found that after Hurricane Maria monkeys on the devastated island of Cayo Santiago formed more friendships and became more tolerant of each other, despite fewer resources. A team of researchers led by Penn neuroscientist Michael Platt had been studying a colony of rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, a small Puerto Rican island, for a decade when Hurricane Maria hit. The island had been devastated. A massive effort by the team on the ground allowed the work to get back up and running, putting the researchers in a unique position to study how the monkeys’ behavior may have changed in response to an acute natural disaster. (Image: Lauren Brent)
The path to deeper connections, even amidst a pandemic A new book from Penn’s Edward Brodkin and psychology doctoral candidate Ashley Pallathra focuses on the science and practice of attunement, the process by which people can most effectively connect to themselves and others.
For the past year, staying physically apart from others was crucial to keeping everyone safe in the face of a brand new, deadly virus. Though necessary, the social distancing also amplified an already troubling fact: Rates of loneliness have been rising for the past several decades in the United States.
“Even before the pandemic, the increase in loneliness has been striking,” says Edward Brodkin, a psychiatrist in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. “And then along comes the pandemic, which of course separated us even more.”
Gene therapy restores vison in dogs with severe form of Leber congenital amaurosis
Gustavo Aguirre and William Beltran, veterinary ophthalmologists and vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, have studied a wide range of different retinal blinding disorders. But the one caused by mutations in the NPHP5 gene, leading to a form of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), is one of the most severe.
Children with this disorder are not visual. They have a wandering, searching look on their faces and are usually diagnosed at a young age.
Gustavo Aguirre, Veterinary Ophthalmologist and Vision Scientist, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine