Wugen Inc., a clinical-stage U.S. biotechnology company developing allogeneic, off-the-shelf cell therapies for the treatment of hematological and solid tumor malignancies, announced it will initiate a phase II study in the first quarter of 2025 for the company’s potential first-in-class, investigational, anti-CD7 CAR T-cell therapy, WU-CART-007, in patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma.
Scientists at City of Hope identified a protein that could help prevent CAR T-cell therapy antigen escape. The research, published in the journal Cell, could lead to more personalized therapies that improve cancer patients’ survival.
