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Intellia Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Advancements in its CRISPR-Engineered Allogeneic Platform at the 2022 Keystone Symposia’s Precision Genome Engineering Conference
Data highlight proprietary allogeneic cell engineering platform capable of creating immune-evading T cells and deployable for TCR-T and CAR-T cell
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[{"type":"text","content":"Data highlight proprietary allogeneic cell engineering platform capable of creating immune-evading T cells and deployable for TCR-T and CAR-T cell therapyFindings support recent development candidate initiation of NTLA-6001, an investigational allogeneic CAR-T therapy, for the treatment of CD30-expressing hematologic cancers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTLA), a leading genome editing company focused on developing potentially curative therapies leveraging CRISPR-based technologies, today announced the presentation of new preclinical data from its differentiated allogeneic cell engineering platform at Keystone Symposia’s Precision Genome Engineering Conference, taking place April 27 – May 1, 2022, in Keystone, Colorado. The data presented support the development of NTLA-6001, Intellia’s allogeneic CAR-T development candidate targeting CD30 for the treatment of CD30-expressing hematologic cancers, including relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). “We are pleased to present promising preclinical data that led to the nomination of Intellia’s wholly owned allogeneic development candidate, NTLA-6001, for CD30-expressing hematologic lymphomas. NTLA-6001 is the first candidate using our differentiated allogeneic platform, which leverages a novel combination of sequential, LNP-delivered gene edits to yield T cells shielded from immune rejection,” said Intellia Chief Scientific Officer Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Ph.D. “Our approach to engineering T cells aims to solve key immunological challenges to allogeneicity, while retaining cell attributes necessary for potent and durable tumor killing. We look forward to advancing NTLA-6001 toward IND-enabling activities.” The data shared at Keystone demonstrated that Intellia’s proprietary allogeneic solution created T cells that not only avoided immune recognition by host CD4 and CD8 T cells, but also were protected from NK cell-mediated killing in in vitro and in vivo mouse models. Furthermore, allogeneic T cells engineered sequentially with LNPs retained high viability, cell expansion, memory phenotype, cytotoxic and cytokine secretion characteristics. Intellia’s allogeneic platform can be deployed for TCR-T and CAR-T cell therapy. As part of these platform advancement efforts, Intellia evaluated multiple CD30 CAR constructs ...