The Translational Immuno-Oncology department (chair Prof. Dr. Renata Stripecke) at the Internal Medicine I (Director Prof. Michael Hallek) of the Cologne University Hospital Cologne develops immunotherapies against cancer. We are engineering chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR T cells) that kill lymphoma cells and cells infected with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). The CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technique is currently being used to make CAR T cells more effective, safer and more widely available for patients. These gene-edited CAR T cells will be tested pre-clinically in vitro and in vivo. The clinical development of CAR-T cells against lymphomas will follow as a cooperation with several clinicians at the UKK and the University of Dresden.
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