CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma: recent clinical advances and future challenges

SJ Bagley, AS Desai, GP Linette, CH June… - Neuro …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In patients with certain hematologic malignancies, the use of autologous T cells genetically
modified to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has led to unprecedented clinical …

Intrathecal bivalent CAR T cells targeting EGFR and IL13Rα2 in recurrent glioblastoma: phase 1 trial interim results

SJ Bagley, M Logun, JA Fraietta, X Wang, AS Desai… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM) remains a major unmet medical need, with a median overall
survival of less than 1 year. Here we report the first six patients with rGBM treated in a phase …

[HTML][HTML] The University of Pennsylvania glioblastoma (UPenn-GBM) cohort: advanced MRI, clinical, genomics, & radiomics

…, M Bergman, ZA Binder, R Verma, RA Lustig, AS Desai… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common aggressive adult brain tumor. Numerous studies have
reported results from either private institutional data or publicly available datasets. However, …

Clinical utility of plasma cell-free DNA in adult patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma: a pilot prospective study

…, DM O'Rourke, AJ Cucchiara, S Brem, AS Desai… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: The clinical utility of plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has not been assessed prospectively
in patients with glioblastoma (GBM). We aimed to determine the prognostic impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical measures, radiomics, and genomics offer synergistic value in AI-based prediction of overall survival in patients with glioblastoma

…, AS Desai, RA Lustig, S Brem, S Mohan… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Multi-omic data, ie, clinical measures, radiomic, and genetic data, capture multi-faceted
tumor characteristics, contributing to a comprehensive patient risk assessment. Here, we …

Histopathology‐validated machine learning radiographic biomarker for noninvasive discrimination between true progression and pseudo‐progression in glioblastoma

…, AS Desai, DM O'Rourke, S Brem, R Lustig, S Mohan… - Cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Imaging of glioblastoma patients after maximal safe resection and chemoradiation
commonly demonstrates new enhancements that raise concerns about tumor progression…

[HTML][HTML] Case report: prolonged survival following EGFRvIII CAR T cell treatment for recurrent glioblastoma

…, S Wang, SF Lacey, JJ Melenhorst, AS Desai… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeted to epidermal growth factor
receptor variant III (CAR T-EGFRvIII) have been developed and administered experimentally to …

Clinical activity of the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor osimertinib in EGFR-mutant glioblastoma

…, ZA Binder, DM O'Rourke, AS Desai, S Brem… - CNS …, 2019 - Future Medicine
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and carries
a dismal prognosis. The EGFR gene is among the most commonly deranged genes in GBM …

Timed sequential therapy of the selective T-type calcium channel blocker mibefradil and temozolomide in patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas

…, X Ye, JG Supko, LB Nabors, AS Desai… - Neuro …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. Mibefradil (MIB), previously approved for treatment of hypertension, is a selective
T-type calcium channel blocker with preclinical activity in high-grade gliomas (HGGs). To …

Risk of intracranial hemorrhage with direct oral anticoagulants vs low molecular weight heparin in glioblastoma: A retrospective cohort study

L Reed-Guy, AS Desai, RE Phillips, D Croteau… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Glioblastoma (GBM) is associated with a high incidence of venous thromboembolism
(VTE), but there are little data to guide anticoagulation in patients with GBM, in whom …