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Imagine a world without disease. Let's join forces to accelerate the development of advanced medicines and ensure access to cures for all patients, everywhere.

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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
2 years
A first in human study of anti-HIV CAR-T started yesterday with the first participant/partner infused yesterday at UC Davis (NCT04648046) PIs: Drs S Deeks ⁦ @UCSFMedicine ⁩ and M Abedi ⁦ @UCDavisHealth ⁩ - please visit our website and support our work
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New report of a bone transplant transplant approach yielding a true cure to HIV. We are so excited to see these advances, and look for way to bring them to all. @amfAR @DAREtoCureHIV @defeatHIV #IAS22 @AIDS_conference #AIDS2022
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M Porteus ⁦ @StanfordMed ⁩ presenting Crispr based correction of globin to potentially cure #sicklecell #PMFG2022 @ConquerSCD ⁩ ⁦ @SidraMedicine ⁩ ⁦ @SickleInAfrica ⁩ ⁦ @SCCConsortium
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Caring Cross
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@UmojaBiopharma ⁩ making the case for direct in vivo CAR-T therapy using an engineered lentiviral particle that targets and a rapa responsive payload to drive T expansion #ASGCT22 #CARTcell #immunotherapy -the future of in vivo therapy is here…
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
4 years
Interest in a permanent “cure” is growing. Let’s defeat HIV! New HIV Gene Therapy, CAR-T Treatments Could be on the Horizon for Patients
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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Just back from an inspiring @AACR where Drs. Rouce ( @TexasChildrens ), Kekre ( @OttawaHospital ) and Orentas (Caring Cross) presented an Education Session on "Alternative Manufacturing and Delivery Models to Improve Access to CAR-T" #AACR2024 #hope #action @bcmhouston @uOttawa
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Caring Cross
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Uganda! Sickle Cell Disease patient & advocates education and outreach day @jcrc_official1 full house to hear about red cell & plasma exchange, bone marrow transplant & gene therapy @UAGurkan @globalgti @SickleInAfrica @NHLBI_BLOODDir @ConquerSCD @SCDFoundation @SCCConsortium
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Caring Cross
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Tanznia! Meeting with the Advanced Therapy Group and dedicated patient advocates. @globalgti @Muhimur_ @SickleInAfrica @ConquerSCD
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@caring_cross
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Please join us for our upcoming Scientific Seminar! Presenter: Dr. Rayne Rouce ( @TexasChildrens ) Date: Friday, April 19, 2024 Time: 3:00 PM EST Register: #HealthcareInnovation #GeneModification #HealthcareCommunity #Science @bcmhouston
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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Board Mtg ⁦ @jcrc_official1 ⁩ and lab tours w/Dr F Ssali- actively decolonizing medicine-they will implement gene therapy for sickle cell disease and HIV & bring cutting edge research & care where needed most ⁦ @ConquerSCD ⁩ ⁦ @globalgti ⁩ ⁦ @SickleInAfrica
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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An AMAZING report from @fredhutch - this is the first demonstrated (yes it’s in a macaque) anti-HIV CAR-T approach in vivo - sheds bright light on the immense potential of this approach. Kudos to Drs Barber-Axthelm, @HPKiem , Peterson
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Caring Cross
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We are in Uganda to celebrate Moses Supercharger living positively with HIV for 30 years and fiercely spreading knowledge understanding and hope. Let’s cure HIV! @UNAIDS @DAREtoCureHIV @londonpatient @defeatHIV @amfAR @CissyKityo @JNkengasong
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@caring_cross
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Our Board of Directors has expanded to include Drs Julie Makani, Crystal Mackall, Deus Bazira, & Nirav Shah: high-impact leaders who will help guide our mission to bring curative cell and gene therapies to all who would benefit @DeusBazira @juliemakani @MackallLab @niravshahmd
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This open access @Nature paper reports new insights as to how Anti-HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies may lead to control, change, and maybe one day a long-term drop in viral load-2 patients showed a prolonged beneficial effect @RockefellerUniv @globalgti
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
2 years
Timothy Ray Brown said he does not want to be the only one. This trial at UC-Davis is a challenge/ lots of time & tests are asked of the participant. We can’t learn if CAR-T could be a path to durable cure without you. It’s a first in human trial: and a new approach.
@UCDavisGT
UCDavis_Gene_Therapy
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UC Davis - Could CAR T cells offer hope for an HIV cure? ENP Newswire - Powered by Dow Jones· GB|March 25, 2022·12:00am #HIV #CART #clinicaltrials
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Wonderful to meet the team at ImmunoAct and see their impressive facilities in Mumbai, India. Happy Diwali ! ⁦⁦ @globalgti #CARTcells #affordable @ASGCTherapy ⁩ 🪔
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We just posted a new video presenting the mechanism of action of our anti-HIV CAR-T cell, intended for all audiences! Thanks to Kim Anthony-Gonda, Karine Dubé, and @UUtah animation lab @globalgti @CIRMnews
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Caring Cross
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Thanks to Dr. Rutishauser for presenting at our Dec 16 event entitled: Learn and apply: Harnessing features of effective antiviral T cell responses to enhance adoptive T cell therapies for HIV You may access it in our Members Area; membership is FREE 👉
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
2 years
Latest Whitepaper “Regulatory considerations for Decentralized Manufacturing in personalized cell therapies…” by Dr Xiaobin Liu -frm FDA, current ICT (Innovative Cellular Therapies) VP-visit the Whitepapers section under “Stay Informed” tab on our website
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Caring Cross
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While @NIH had a strong showing w/Drs Collins, Gibbons, Mensah, and Kilmarks - the @Tzembassyusdc @sicklecellmuhas @OfficialJCRC leaders in Africa were ones preparing for gene therapy at the Global Partnerships for SCD: Science at the US Africa Summit mtg today @globalgti
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“…we are at a crossroads in the cell and gene therapy industry…decentralization will make cell and gene therapies more attainable for more patients…” -Ø Åmellem, Thermo Fisher director of cell therapy @globalgti @amfAR @thermofisher @Cytiva in
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The National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers is helping to set standards of care, and to improve practice in all centers nationwide @ConquerSCD @FundSickleCell @SCDFoundation #ASH22 @nascc_org
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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It’s official! @Cytiva is enabling our mission to bring CART therapy to LMICs -these new workflows will make place-of-care mfg a reality for all who need curative cell and gene therapies
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Caring Cross
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Today at @IAS2021 meeting the HIV Cure& Gene Therapy Forum featured talks by @Jenome77 Drs Jen Adair from @fredhutch and @globalgti Cissy Kitto @JcrcUganda and H-P Kiem @HPKiem introduced by M McCune from @gatesfoundation @melindagates @BillGates and P Cannon from @KeckMedUSC
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Caring Cross
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A new gene therapy approach to HIV therapy- using gene modified T cells to create a virus resistant immune system- here featuring an endoribonuclease with proclivity for HIV sequences @MolTherapy @CureHIVNOW @amfAR #cureHIV
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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The first patient has now been dosed with Crispr corrected CD34 stem cells- pathway to a cure for sickle cell? ⁦ @GraphiteBio ⁩ ⁦ @StanfordMed ⁩ ⁦ @SidraMedicine #PMFG2022 @ConquerSCD ⁩ ⁦ @SickleInAfrica ⁩ ⁦ @SCDFoundation
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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In London at Tanzania House to learn about the science and economics of bringing cures to sickle cell disease. At the @globalgti call today we heard from Dr Stella Malangahe @sicklecellmuhas @nih_nhlbi there have been 8 HSCT for SCD in TZ. History made! 8 Cures! @SCDFoundation
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Caring Cross
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Vector BioMed has launched! The first B corp to be spun out of Caring Cross. With preferential pricing and access for Caring Cross projects this is an essential step in providing the tools to make cell and gene therapy accessible to all
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Two publications with @caring_cross authors today, Dr. Anthony-Gonda continues to deepen our understanding of antiHIV CAR-T and our @globalgti colleagues in real world CAR-T mfg in India @cmcvelloreoff
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Hear our Executive Director, Boro Dropulic discuss the Caring Cross model to innovate, broaden access, and lower costs for cell and gene therapy, focusing on new approaches for CART for #HIVcure on @HealthProRadio Health Professionals Radio @globalgti
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“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and most inhumane.” Attributed to Dr Martin Luther King Jr., at the Medical Committee of Human Rights convention, Chicago 1966. Dr. Charlene Galarneau dug a little deeper and found the actual quote….
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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Dr J Siliciano presented an amazing overview of T cell clonal dynamics and how this can lead over time to non-suppressible viremia #CROI2023 #CROI23 @globalgti @DAREtoCureHIV @CureHIVNOW
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Caring Cross
2 years
Our colleagues @ISCTglobal are putting on a great seminar series - CART manufacturing in your own featuring @DrPHanley @niravshahmd and a team from Brazil! The future starts now
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
2 years
Dr Peter Marks of the FDA links the earlier use of CAR-T in treatment pathways to cost and availability At Caring Cross we are working to bring down costs of cell and gene therapy -so they are available to all who need them
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
2 years
We have an exciting scientific seminar coming up this Friday, Oct 21 at 3pm EST: HIV cure research: implementation challenges and participant engagement in cutting-edge therapeutic studies Presenter: Dr. Michael Peluso from @UCSF Register now 👉
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Caring Cross
3 years
At the International AIDS Society Mtg #IAS2021 the HIV Cure & Gene Therapy Session highlighted the potential of cell and gene therapies to control or eradicate HIV -the technology to bring this to pass is making rapid progress @NIAIDFunding @NIH @gatesfoundation @globalgti
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Caring Cross
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Lentiviral gene addition & CRIsPR editing of B globin or regions involved in fetal globin silencing generates a new high efficiency #sicklecell disease therapeutic approach @inserm1163 @ASGCTherapy @globalgti @SickleInAfrica @SCCConsortium #CureSCD
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And this person from @caring_cross giving an intro lecture about cell and gene therapy approaches to a cure. An amazing event! Passion, interest, and a drive to cure shown by each attendee
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Caring Cross
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The revolution is here- now- sickle cell disease outcomes greater than a year out following lentiglobin therapy (LV transduced HSCT) are very supportive of a gene therapy approach @globalgti @SickleInAfrica @SCCConsortium @TheBethesdaLabs
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Caring Cross
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Data from M Peluso @UCSFMedicine as presented by J Siliciano @HopkinsMedicine encourages us that additive interventions can change viral load set points- can bNABs +CAR-T get us to a durable U state? @globalgti @DAREtoCureHIV @CureHIVNOW
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Caring Cross
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Congrats to the visionary leadership at UC-Davis who have initiated on-site CAR-T manufacturing - bringing cures to patients faster @globalgti @jan_nolta @UCDavisMed @UCDavisGT @UCDavisGT
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Jordan Pavlic
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I am so thankful to be able to do such amazing things as a part of this program. ❤️🧬🔬 #WomenInSTEM
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Caring Cross
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Pictured are our lead scientists in cell and gene therapies ( @KimAGonda ) and technologies (Z Zhu) as well as Dr Daniel Muyanja from Uganda @JCRC_official1 - two investigators from Uganda joined us to make sure we develop this program with international application in mind
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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On Jul 07, 2023, we continued our Cell and Gene Therapy educational series, and Dr. Kevin Curran presented: Exploring Cell Therapies, Focus on CAR-T You may access it in our Members Area; membership is FREE 👉
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Caring Cross
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We've just released the latest Whitepaper on our website: Distributive Manufacturing of CD19 CAR-T Cells Using CliniMACS Prodigy: Feasibility and Real-World Experience from India Download it now here 👉
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
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We lost a heroic warrior in Elizabeth Merab- and true advocate in our fight to end sickle cell disease @globalgti @SCDFoundation @SickleInAfrica @thecuresci
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More pediatric patients are making it to adulthood. All patients do better when cared for in specialized centers #ASH22 @ConquerSCD @SickleInAfrica @SCDFoundation @SickleCellMI
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Caring Cross
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'How do you decide?' Cancer patients die waiting for CAR-T therapy- thanks to Kevin Curran #risingtidebio .com for highlighting the need for quicker process and better access. We are streamlining workflows for LIMCs that will address many of these issues
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Caring Cross
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So pleased to support Moses Supercharger -we must commentate the history of the HIV epidemic, remembering the bravery of those who fought stigma and mobilized to share cures. Every nation/community needs to share & educate @globalgti @amfAR @UNAIDS @DAREtoCureHIV
@SuperchargerMo1
Supercharger Moses
1 year
Tweet with the amazing support from the Caring cross leadership,am happy to report that the Syllab (concrete roof of the ground floor of the HIV ARTseum is near completion!! Grand launch in on 9 November 2023.Special guest Dr Rimas,Dr Boro and my friend Dr Mcunne from BMGF
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Caring Cross
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Dr Daniel is shown explains red call and plasma exchange and Dr Francis is showing the new Gazelle devices that can give rapid Hgb status- no need to return next week @HemexHealth
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Caring Cross
3 years
New pub highlighting efforts of Gates Fndtn & Novartis to bring curative cell/gene therapy for SCD & HIV ⁦ @Novartis ⁩ ⁦ @gatesfoundation ⁩ Collaborative science to advance gene therapies in resource-limited parts of the world: Molecular Therapy
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
2 years
It’s First Friday! at 3 PM ET visit our website () and register for a free technology education seminar on CAR-T cells by Prof. Rimas Orentas. On the 19th is a Scientific Seminar by Dr. Michael Maschan presenting his phase I/II CAR-T cell trial in Moscow
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Our Scientific Director will be speaking at #PEGS22 tomorrow on moving CAR-T cells from leukemia to solid tumors in the “Strategies to Advance Cellular Immunotherapies” session hosted by @NCIResearchCtr @MitchellHo
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Caring Cross
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We continued our Cell and Gene Therapy educational series created by cell and gene industry expert Dr. Kevin Curran. Title: Biological details with lentiviral CAR-T Presenter: Kevin Curran, PhD Please register on our Events page now 👉
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
1 year
Excellent piece by our colleague Fydor Urnov - cost is the issue! CRISPR Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Now What?
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Caring Cross
3 years
Great article about recent advances toward sickle cell disease cure ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ ⁦ @ginakolata ⁩ ⁦ @nih_nhlbi ⁩ ⁦ @GatesUS ⁩ ⁦ @gateshealth ⁩ The time is now to develop low cost cures for all! ⁦ @bluebirdbio ⁩ ⁦ @ScottDRamsey
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Caring Cross
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Dr Wisemann ⁦ @PennMedicine ⁩ delivered the George Stam lecture #ASGCT22 showing in vivo generation of CAR-T w/CD5 targeting lipid particles containing mRNA encoding CAR seqs. CD117 targeting of HSC with LNPs is next for sickle cell disease- in vivo gene therapy is here!
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@caring_cross
Caring Cross
1 year
Dr Doria-Rose @NIH sharing advances in broadly neutralizing antibodies - here is the current list #HIVcure
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Caring Cross
2 years
Illustrating HIV biology and the search for a cure - check out this informative series brought to you by youth4cure @defeatHIV @globalgti @amfAR @DAREtoCureHIV
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Our exciting impact talk, "HIV Cure Research: Scaling Up Participant-Centered Approaches, Strategic Socio-Behavioral Sciences and Ethics Research," will be happening later at 3 pm EST: Presenter: Karine Dube, DrPH / UCSD FREE to register 👉
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Caring Cross
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We continued with our Cell and Gene Therapy educational series created by industry expert Dr. Kevin Curran. AAV Gene Therapy Manufacturing Presenter: Kevin Curran, PhD Please register on our Events page now 👉
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Caring Cross
2 years
We have an exciting technology education coming up this Friday, June 3 at 3pm EST: Molecular switches and logic gates for CAR-T (series 9/9). Presenter: Dr. Rimas Orentas It would be great if you could join us! Register on our Events page now 👇
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Training program that can ELIMINATE racial bias in clinical trial enrollment presented by Dr Carmen Guerra @PennMedicine @sitcancer #SITC2022 #SITC22 - invite her to speak, read her work, and invite change #noexcuses #equity #inclusion
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“We are concerned about the constant use of federal funds to support this notorious expression of segregation. Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhuman because it often results in physical death…”
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2 years
The @CDCgov has created a one-pager to help prepare for the emergency department visits that come with pain crisis in #SickleCellDisease @ConquerSCD @thecuresci #WorldSickleCellDay2022
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Excellent approach. CD117 was a star at #ASH22
@vivien_liv
Vivien Sheehan
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Outstanding poster from Beam Therapeutics at ASH! #ASH22 #SCD #GeneTherapy
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Caring Cross
3 years
You can directly support the work of the Global Gene Therapy Initiative (GGTI) @globalgti on the Caring Cross website. It’s one of our current major projects #uganda #india #vellore #SickleCell @fredhutch @caring_cross
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Cell and Gene Therapies can be produced for a tenth of the current cost if point-of-care manufacturing is enabled. Out latest publication describes a major part of this solution for the generation of CAR-T -stay tuned for more @globalgti @Cytiva #ASH23
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Caring Cross
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Cell manufacturing team at the NIH with a great publication
@hannahwsong
Hannah W. Song, Ph.D.
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A labor of love!! Bench to beside to bench, and with help from our industry partners we could one day get this back to the bedside to test whether negative selection could improve clinical outcomes. A huge team effort🥳
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A wonderful chance to celebrate expansion of the educational center, a place to remember the legacy of those who led the fight against #HIV #AIDS and to learn from Moses Supercharger #HIVcure #PEPFAR #UNAIDS #Amfar #caringcross
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2 years
At Caring Cross we are honored to participate in the work of IGI by serving on a number of committees and sharing our approach to bring curative cell and gene therapy to all those who would benefit. @doudna_lab @igisci
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Innovative Genomics Institute
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"A cure is not really a cure if the people that need it can’t afford it." - Jennifer Doudna A new IGI task force is taking on the biggest issue for promising new genomic therapies: affordability. Learn more:
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“The first molecular disease has a molecular cure” F Collins’ lecture #ASGCT22 @globalgti ⁩ ⁦ @nih_nhlbi ⁩ ⁦ @ConquerSCD ⁩ -Now let’s make it available to those who need it most!!
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Just a few patients- impressive results for #SCD LV- mediated transduction of CD34 cells with anti-sickling beta-globin @SickleInAfrica @globalgti @SCCConsortium
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We have an exciting impact talk coming up this Friday, Jan 20, at 3 pm EST: HIV Cure Research: Scaling Up Participant-Centered Approaches, Strategic Socio-Behavioral Sciences and Ethics Research Presenter: Karine Dube, DrPH / UCSD Register 👉
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Caring Cross
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Our scientific seminar - Exploring Cell Therapies, Focus on CAR-T- will happen later today at 3 pm EST! Presented by Dr. Kevin Curran And it's FREE to register on our Events page 👉 We look forward to seeing you later!
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An entire session on direct in vivo gene delivery at #PEGS23 including #abintusbio #sana - Dr Buchholz kicks us off! @PaulEhrlichGes @globalgti @NIH Already a busy biotech space
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Mose Supercharger teaches us ARVS are our real lover- and the second song Optimistic encourages all of us -TIMELINE FOR AN HIV CURE IS OUT MUSICALLY via @YouTube
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Our latest whitepaper by the Hon. Dr Mark Dybul has been published- please visit our site and get the free download of “Global Access to Human Gene Therapy: Lessons Learned from HIV” #AIDS2022 @DAREtoCureHIV @CureHIVNOW @UNAIDS @amfAR @defeatHIV @HIVGov
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Congrats to @bluebirdbio on the approval of Zynteglo (beti-cel) The science is impressive. Given an estimated cost of 2.8 million, we want to see a low cost approach for sickle cell disease. Caring Cross is working to develop a low cost approach for all.
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