PMID- 35149146 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220517 LR - 20220706 IS - 1873-1899 (Electronic) IS - 0734-9750 (Linking) VI - 58 DP - 2022 Sep TI - Better by design: What to expect from novel CAR-engineered cell therapies? PG - 107917 LID - S0734-9750(22)00013-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107917 [doi] AB - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology, and CAR-T cells in particular, have emerged as a new and powerful tool in cancer immunotherapy since demonstrating efficacy against several hematological malignancies. However, despite encouraging clinical results of CAR-T cell therapy products, a significant proportion of patients do not achieve satisfactory responses, or relapse. In addition, CAR-T cell applications to solid tumors is still limited due to the tumor microenvironment and lack of specifically targetable tumor antigens. All current products on the market, as well as most investigational CAR-T cell therapies, are autologous, using the patient's own peripheral blood mononuclear cells as starting material to manufacture a patient-specific batch. Alternative cell sources are, therefore, under investigation (e.g. allogeneic cells from an at least partially human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched healthy donor, universal "third-party" cells from a non-HLA-matched donor, cord blood-derived cells, immortalized cell lines or cells differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells). However, genetic modifications of CAR-engineered cells, bioprocesses used to expand cells, and improved supply chains are still complex and costly. To overcome drawbacks associated with CAR-T technologies, novel CAR designs have been used to genetically engineer cells derived from alpha beta (alphabeta) T cells, other immune cells such as natural killer (NK) cells, gamma delta (gammadelta) T cells, macrophages or dendritic cells. This review endeavours to trigger ideas on the next generation of CAR-engineered cell therapies beyond CAR-T cells and, thus, will enable effective, safe and affordable therapies for clinical management of cancer. To achieve this, we present a multidisciplinary overview, addressing a wide range of critical aspects: CAR design, development and manufacturing technologies, pharmacological concepts and clinical applications of CAR-engineered cell therapies. Each of these fields employs a large number of ground-breaking scientific advances, where coordinated and complex process and product development occur at their interfaces. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Luginbuehl, Vera AU - Luginbuehl V AD - Novartis Oncology, Cell & Gene Therapy, Novartis Pharma Schweiz AG, Rotkreuz, Switzerland. Electronic address: vera.luginbuehl@novartis.com. FAU - Abraham, Eytan AU - Abraham E AD - Personalized Medicine Lonza Pharma&Biotech, Lonza Ltd., Walkersville, MD, USA. FAU - Kovar, Karin AU - Kovar K AD - daspool, Wadenswil, Switzerland. FAU - Flaaten, Richard AU - Flaaten R AD - Novartis Oncology, Cell & Gene Therapy, Novartis Norge AS, Oslo, Norway. FAU - Muller, Antonia M S AU - Muller AMS AD - Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20220209 PL - England TA - Biotechnol Adv JT - Biotechnology advances JID - 8403708 RN - 0 (Receptors, Chimeric Antigen) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Immunotherapy, Adoptive MH - Leukocytes, Mononuclear MH - *Neoplasms/therapy MH - *Receptors, Chimeric Antigen/genetics MH - T-Lymphocytes MH - Tumor Microenvironment OTO - NOTNLM OT - Advanced manufacturing technologies OT - CAR discovery and development OT - CAR pharmacology OT - CAR-T cell therapy OT - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) OT - Clinical trials OT - Genetic Engineering OT - Macrophages OT - Natural killer cells OT - cancer immunotherapy EDAT- 2022/02/13 06:00 MHDA- 2022/05/18 06:00 CRDT- 2022/02/12 05:29 PHST- 2021/09/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/01/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/02/01 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/02/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/05/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/02/12 05:29 [entrez] AID - S0734-9750(22)00013-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107917 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biotechnol Adv. 2022 Sep;58:107917. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107917. Epub 2022 Feb 9.