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CAR T cell therapy a game-changer for teen with leukemia
Sebastian "Diego" Serna is a happy, healthy 16-year-old with big plans. “I want to finish high school,” he says, “then go to college, study criminal justice and go into law...
Nurse shares passion for CAR T cell therapy
When Jennifer Peterson, R.N., M.S.N., OCN, BMTCN, first came to City of Hope as a travel nurse more than a decade ago, she had no idea that it would change...
Lymphoma patient thrives after CAR T treatment
Mutua Munavu is a can-do guy in a can-do job. He’s an engineer at Boeing, working in customer support. “We’re the ones who keep the planes flying,” he says. He...
In innovative twist, City of Hope applies CAR T cell therapy to HIV 
Over the last couple of decades, HIV/AIDS has turned from a grim diagnosis to a manageable disease thanks to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). However, the virus remains in patients’...
New study may lead to breakthrough in CAR T cell therapy for glioblastoma
Why is CAR T cell therapy — an immunotherapy that engineers a patient’s own T cells to target cancer — so effective for many types of cancer, but not for glioblastoma, a...
CAR T and the wedding of her dreams
For almost half of her young life, Raeleen Whitt of Costa Mesa, California, has battled cancer.   She was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when she was 16 years...
Checkpoint inhibitors plus CAR T shows promise for glioblastoma
Glioblastoma is an aggressive cancer of the brain. To add to the challenge, it is in a difficult location to treat because it is protected by the blood-brain barrier, a...
Pediatric Brain Tumor Trial Receives $8.4 Million Grant
Pediatric brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children and the most common cause of childhood death from cancer. While there are effective therapies for some brain tumors...
City of Hope scientists present latest cancer research advances at AACR
Next generation cell therapy Eric Lee, B.S., research associate, and Saul Priceman, Ph.D., assistant professor and associate director of Translational Sciences & Technologies in the T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory at City of...