Search­ing for ways to boost CAR-T re­sponse, Penn re­searchers find a ca­pa­ble wing­man in BET in­hibitors

A whole in­dus­try may have been born out of the spec­tac­u­lar suc­cess of CD19 CAR-T, push­ing the en­ve­lope on next-gen­er­a­tion con­structs hit­ting new tar­gets. But a group of re­searchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia reck­ons there’s still plen­ty of new things you can do with the OG cell ther­a­py — with the help of a fa­mil­iar class of drugs.

In do­ing so, they may have un­cov­ered a way to get around T cell ex­haus­tion, which has been a cen­tral chal­lenge for the field.

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