UCLA researchers identify compound that could improve lung disease treatment – Daily Bruin

A UCLA study identified a chemical compound that may improve lung health, potentially suggesting new approaches to preventing and treating lung diseases.

According to the study published Tuesday in Cell Reports, the UCLA team discovered a compound now named Wnt Inhibitor Compound 1, or WIC1, that successfully improved the health of isolated cancerous human and mouse airway cells.

The compound targets a group of molecules, called the Wnt/-catenin signaling pathway, that is more activated in the lungs of people with precancerous lesions or lung cancer than in the lungs of healthy people. Elevated activity in this pathway has also been linked to lung cancer in other studies.

The researchers tested around 20,000 compounds on their abilities to block this pathway in the process of identifying WIC1.

The researchers also found that the compound WIC1 was far less toxic than other known inhibitors of the Wnt/-catenin signaling pathway. The compound could therefore be used to develop safer drugs to prevent and treat lung diseases linked to the pathway.

Led by Brigitte Gomperts, a UCLA professor of pediatrics and of pulmonary medicine, and Cody Aros, a molecular biology graduate student, the team is planning to further investigate the safety of WIC1 and the mechanism by which it blocks the pathway.

The study was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute and the Broad Stem Cell Research Center Training Program.

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Cord Stem Cell Banking Market 2020 to Witness Great Growth || Key Players Cryo-Save AG, Lifecell, StemCyte India Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd, Viacord,…

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Caution: Higher Radiation Dose Linked to Worse NHL Outcomes – Medscape

ORLANDO, Florida Increasing the dose of total body irradiation (TBI) given to patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) who are undergoing reduced-intensity conditioning prior to stem cell transplant may lead to worse survival, investigators caution.

The finding comes from a study in 413 adults with NHL who underwent a first allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHCT) with a fludarabine-based reduced-intensity conditioning regimen that included TBI.

Dr Mehdi Hamadani

In this patient population, relapse is the most common cause of therapy failure. One approach to decreasing relapse risk has been to increase the intensity of the radiation component from 2 Gy to 4 Gy, but the effect of the higher radiation doses on nonrelapse mortality is uncertain, explained lead investigator Mehdi Hamadani, MD, from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

The results showed a significantly higher incidence of nonrelapse mortality and significantly worse overall survival for patients who received the higher radiation dose.

"Relative to the more standard fludarabine/2-Gy TBI conditioning, the 4-Gy TBI-based approach does not seem to increase the risk of graft-vs-host disease, either acute or chronic, [but] it provides no benefit in terms of graft failure. This higher 4-Gy TBI approach is associated with a significantly increased risk of nonrelapse mortality that clearly translates into inferior survival with this approach," Hamadi reported.

The study was presented here at Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (TCT) 2020, a joint meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR).

Mazyar Shadman, MD, MPH, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, who was comoderator of the session at which the study was presented, told Medscape Medical News, "It's mainly an institutional decision: you see a patient and you think they have high-risk disease, so you go up a little bit on the dose, but the data were actually very informative. You're not getting any better disease control, and you have more toxicity, so I think this is a very important study; I think a nonrandomized trial has its limitations, but it's still very helpful," he said.

The investigators studied data on 413 adults with NHL in the CIBMTR registry who received a first alloHCT from either a matched-related or unrelated donor from 2008 through 2017 and who underwent a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen with fludarabine plus either 2 Gy (349 patients) or 4 Gy (64 patients) of TBI.

The baseline characteristics of the two cohorts were generally similar except that in the 4-Gy group, a higher proportion of patients had Karnofsky Performance scores >90% (P = .01), and a lower proportion of patients had a Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation-specific Comorbidity Index of 3 (P = .003).

The investigators found that compared with the 2-Gy TBI dose, the 4-Gy dose was associated with a hazard ratio (HR) for nonrelapse mortality of 1.79 (P = .02) and an HR for inferior overall survival of 1.51 (P = .03).

In contrast, there were no significant differences between the dosing groups for either NHL relapse/progression (HR, 0.78; P = .33) or progression-free survival (HR, 1.09; P = .61).

The 5-year adjusted nonrelapse mortality rate for the 2-Gy group was 28%, compared with 47% for the 4-Gy group (P = .005). Other adjusted 5-year outcomes were as follows: risk for relapse/progression, 35% vs 29%; progression-free survival, 37% vs 24% (P = .03); and overall survival, 51% vs 31% (P = .001).

The rate of graft failure at 100 days was 0.6% in the 2-GY group, compared with 1.6% in the 4-Gy group, but this difference was not significant.

The most common cause of death in each group was relapse.

Session comoderator Yago Nieto, MD, PhD, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, commented in an interview with Medscape Medical News that a conditioning regimen with fludarabine and 4-Gy TBI is not commonly used in the United States.

He also noted that Hamadani and colleagues evaluated patients with lymphoma of several histologies. He pointed out that radiosensitivity specifically to TBI differs between aggressive and indolent lymphomas.

"Indolent lymphoma is more sensitive to TBI than diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, for example. The numbers for each subgroup in this study were small, and I don't think it's empowered to address this question, but one could speculate that patients with follicular lymphoma might benefit more from a higher TBI dose than those with aggressive histologies," he said.

No source of funding for the study has been disclosed. Hamadani, Nieto, and Shadman have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (TCT) 2020: Abstract 24. Presented February 19, 2020.

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A case of reverse development: Dana-Farber scientists solve long-debated puzzle of how the intestine heals itself – Newswise

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A case of reverse development: Dana-Farber scientists solve long-debated puzzle of how the intestine heals itself

Newswise BOSTON Deep within the lining of the human intestine lies the source of the organs ability to renew itself and recover from damage: intestinal stem cells (ISCs), lodged in pockets of tissue called crypts, generate the cells that continuously repopulate the intestinal lining. Even the stem cells themselves have a safety net: when theyre damaged, healthy replacements appear in less than a week.

For years, scientists have debated how the ISCs re-emergence occurs. Some have held that the intestine keeps a pool of ISCs on reserve a kind of backup-backup supply to replenish the cache of front-line ISCs that have been lost. Others have maintained that something more involuted is as work: The ISCs, like queen bees, give rise to more specialized, or differentiated, progeny in this case, daughter cells that form the inner lining of the intestine. When the ISCs are damaged, this school of thought held, the daughter cells reverse course and de-differentiate reverting into the ISCs from which they arose.

A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists comes down solidly on the latter option.

Published online today by the journalCell Stem Cell, the researchers found that ISCs and their daughter cells have a strikingly reciprocal relationship: under normal conditions, ISCs differentiate into daughter cells, and, if the ISCs are lost, the daughter cells simply reverse course and become ISCs. Our findings suggest that the restoration of intestinal stem cells occurs entirely by the process of de-differentiation, says the studys senior author, Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber, Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH), and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. We showed theres no need for a reserve set of ISCs.

Bolstering their findings, the researchers were also able to capture the de-differentiation process in real time. When cells begin to de-differentiate, they switch on a gene that that allows them to be isolated and collected with laboratory techniques, Shivdasani explains. Through this process, researchers were able to capture the cells along a continuum of de-differentiation. Shivdasani likens it to a baseball play in which a runner is tagged out between first and second base.

Heavy turnover

The intestine is one of just three tissues in the body, along with the skin and blood, in which cells are constantly turning over dying and being replaced by freshly made cells. They share this quality because they are the tissues most intimately in contact with material from the environment, and therefore with potentially harmful substances. The constant turnover, its thought, is a way to prevent toxic substances from having lasting effects on cells and their offspring.

The crypts that hold ISCs are, in a sense, misnamed. Far from being enclosures where dead cells are entombed, they are the sites where ISCs daily generate the billions of daughter cells that take the place of defunct intestinal cells.

One of the chief characteristics of ISCs is that they are extremely radiosensitive, or vulnerable to radiation. People exposed to high levels of radioactivity, in the form of nuclear fallout, for example, can suffer severe intestinal damage because the loss of ISCs halts production of cells to regenerate the damaged tissue. But if ISCs succumb easily to radiation, they also make a rapid return. Patients with radiation-induced intestinal damage who can be kept alive for a week often recover as their ISC levels bounce back.

To determine whether this rebound is due to a reserve stockpile of ISCs or to de-differentiation of daughter cells, Shivdasani and his collaborators performed a kind of time-lapse experiment. They treated a collection of ISC cells with the drug tamoxifen, which caused the cells and their offspring to become fluorescent. They waited 48 hours for the label to take hold, then killed the ISC cells. If the daughter cells were indeed de-differentiating, any ISC cells produced after that point would be fluorescent.Thats exactly what researchers found.

While scientists have been able to convert many kinds of differentiated cells into stem cells using laboratory techniques, Shivdasani and his colleagues discovery demonstrates that de-differentiation ismore than a curious act of nature; it is the principal means to restore damaged stem cell in the intestine. Its not known whether cells in other organs and tissues have this capability, but it remains an open avenue of investigation.

It also isnt clear how the crypt knows that stem cells have died and need to be replaced, Shivdasani remarks, or how the daughter cells receive the signal to de-differentiate. This is a subject were currently exploring.

The lead author of the new paper is Kazutaka Murata, PhD of Dana-Farber and BWH. Co-authors are Unmesh Jadhav, PhD, and Alessia Cavazza, PhD, of Dana-Farber and BWH; Shariq Madha, Justin Dean, Kai Wucherpfennig, MD, PhD, and Franziska Michor, PhD, of Dana-Farber; and Johan van Es, PhD, and Hans Clevers, MD, PhD, of Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants R01DK081113, U01DK103152, and P50CA127003) and gifts from the Lind family.

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FDA Scoffs at Third Way Forward in Stem Cell Therapy – Pain News Network

Gimble and his co-authors recommend the FDA re-evaluate how it categorizes tissues as structural or cellular to recognize the different safety profiles of stem cells products. They also think the FDA should work with accreditation agencies like AABB and FACT to develop meaningful accreditation standards, along with a national registry for stem cell therapies.

This measured third way seeks to carve a compromise between the FDAs regulationist faction and wild west stem cell providers -- a new ideological center that synthesizes the aspirations of two opposing parties in an effort to achieve a compromise.

It must be stated that there are serious questions as to whether the authors proposed polarity is in fact an artifice created for the specific purpose of legitimizing their third way. Upon serious inspection, the authors stated dangers of stem cell clinics may actually be a disingenuous straw man created for their own business interests.

To promote their own agenda and to gain favor with the FDA, Gimble and his co-authors seem to have thrown stem cell clinicians like Dr. Mark Berman under the proverbial bus. Berman, who is a defendant in a FDA lawsuit over his use of autologous cells, recently won a victory in federal court. The judge found that the FDA may not have regulatory authority over Bermans procedures and that a trial needs to be held to resolve the issue.

Nevertheless, the impetus behind the authors recommendations is to move forward with bringing stem cells to patients faster and in a safer manner. Regrettably, the FDA does anything but take the authors seriously. In a lengthy response to the Gimble article, Dr. Peter Marks, Director of the FDAs Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, merely reiterates the agencys firmly-established regulationist position.

After commending the authors for their desire to accelerate the scientific investigation and development of stem cell therapies, Marks demonstrates the FDAs backward-looking posture by stating the agencys regulation of stem cells is distinct from the practice of medicine and should be left alone.

This is an existing paradigm that has been in place for decades, Marks wrote. Autologous cellular therapies do hold tremendous promise, but they will only find their way into routine clinical practice to bring benefit to all patients if they are held to the same standards to demonstrate safety and efficacy as other unproven medical products.

Marks attempts to bolster his argument by citing patient safety, the dearth of research on adipose-derived stem cells and the unethical bad actor clinics that exploit desperate patients. However, the spirit of his position reveals a resistance to any sort of change whatsoever.

Marks and the FDA are living in the past. They consider your cells to be unproven medical products. Apparently, they have yet to realize that the stem cell poles have already shifted.

A. Rahman Ford, PhD, is a lawyer and research professional. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the Howard University School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Law Journal. Rahman lives with chronic inflammation in his digestive tract and is unable to eat solid food. He has received stem cell treatmentin China.

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Personalized Medicine Market Worth $3.92 Trillion by 2026 – Insights Into Diagnostics, Medical Care, Nutrition & Wellness, and Therapeutics – P&T…

DUBLIN, Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Personalized Medicine Market Analysis 2019" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Personalized Medicine market is expected to reach $3.92 trillion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 12.1% during the forecast period.

The efficient and advanced technology and higher prevalence of disease are driving the market growth. However, the higher cost of research and developments is hampering the market.

Based on the End-user, the hospital's segment is estimated to have a lucrative growth due to the lower cost personalized medicines availability in the hospitals. As the practice of personalized medicine becomes more widespread, hospitals will also experience the need to adapt. That does not mean every hospital and medical centre should try and drive the science, but they should be open to collaborations to facilitate such work.

The key vendors mentioned are Abbott Laboratories, Affymetrix Incorporated, Agendia N.V, Agilent Technologies, Inc, Amgen, Inc, Asuragen Incorporated, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Llc, Celera Diagnostics LLC, Celgene Corporation, Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Precision Biologics Incorporated, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis AG, Decode Genetics Inc., Exact Science Corporation, Exagen Diagnostics Inc., GE Healthcare, and Genelex Corporation.

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6 Global Personalized Medicine Market, By Technology6.1 Introduction6.2 Metabolomics6.3 Pharmacodynamics6.4 Pharmacogenetics6.5 Pharmacogenomics6.6 Pharmacokinetics6.7 Pharmacoproteomics6.8 Point-of-Care Testing6.9 Stem Cell Therapy

7 Global Personalized Medicine Market, By Therapeutic Area7.1 Introduction7.2 Autoimmune Diseases7.3 Blood Transfusion Safety7.4 Cancer Management7.5 Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)7.6 Central Nervous System (CNS) Disorders7.7 Coagulation Therapy7.8 Diabetes7.9 Infectious Diseases7.10 Antiviral7.11 Neurology7.12 Psychiatry7.13 Oncology7.14 Immunology7.15 Respiratory

8 Global Personalized Medicine Market, By Distribution Channel8.1 Introduction8.2 Dietary Care Centers8.3 Hospital's Pharmacies8.4 Retail Pharmacies8.5 Other Distribution Channels

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10 Global Personalized Medicine Market, By End-user10.1 Introduction10.2 Academic Institutes10.3 Bio and Health Informatics Companies10.4 Clinical Care and Research Laboratories10.5 Contract Research Organizations10.6 Hospitals10.7 Molecular Diagnostic Laboratories and Testing Facilities10.8 Research Laboratories10.9 Service Providers10.10 Partner10.11 Venture Capitalists10.12 Other End-users

11 Global Personalized Medicine Market, By Geography11.1 North America11.2 Europe11.3 Asia-Pacific11.4 South America11.5 Middle East & Africa

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13 Vendors Landscape13.1 Abbott Laboratories13.2 Affymetrix Incorporated13.3 Agendia N.V13.4 Agilent Technologies Inc.13.5 Amgen Inc.13.6 Asuragen Incorporated13.7 Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, LLC13.8 Celera Diagnostics LLC13.9 Celgene Corporation13.10 Roche Diagnostics Corporation13.11 Precision Biologics Incorporated13.12 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.13.13 Sigma-Aldrich Corporation13.14 Johnson & Johnson13.15 Novartis AG13.16 Decode Genetics Inc.13.17 Exact Science Corporation13.18 Exagen Diagnostics Inc.13.19 GE Healthcare13.20 Genelex Corporation

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BrainStorm Announces Operational Highlights and Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2019 – Yahoo Finance

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NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. (BCLI), a leading developer of adult stem cell technologies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announces financial results for fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.

2019 was a tremendous year for BrainStorm, with significant progress and achievements across all clinical and operational fronts, stated Chaim Lebovits, President and Chief Executive Officer of BrainStorm. Most importantly, we fully enrolled our pivotal, double blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 trial of NurOwn for the treatment of ALS. We announced the trial conducted at six major U.S. medical centers of excellence for ALS, was fully enrolled on October 11, 2019, and on October 28, 2019 the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), completed the second planned interim safety analysis for the first 106 patients who received repeat dosing of NurOwn in the Phase 3 trial. The DSMB concluded the trial should continue as planned without any clinical protocol changes. He added, In addition, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals, Neurology, published NurOwn Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial in ALS: Safety, Clinical and BioMarker Results, bringing news of our investigational therapy to the global scientific community. And, just last week, we were happy to announce that the Company recently held a high level meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss potential NurOwn regulatory pathways for approval in ALS.

Ralph Kern, MD, MHSc, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer of BrainStorm added, 2019 was also a very significant year for those who suffer from progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS). In February 2019, we announced Cleveland Clinic would serve as our first contracted site for a Phase 2 open-label, multicenter study of repeated intrathecal administration of NurOwn (autologous MSC-NTF cells) in participants with progressive MS (NCT03799718). We enrolled our first patient in March. We contracted with The Stanford University School of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center to further enroll patients. Dr. Kern added, The importance of our research in progressive MS was acknowledged by a $495,000 grant award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society through its Fast Forward Program, and mid-December, the Data Safety Monitoring Board completed the first, pre-specified interim analysis, of safety outcomes for 9 participants and after careful review of all available clinical trial data, the DSMB unanimously concluded that the study should continue as planned without any protocol modification. As of December 31, 2019 we have enrolled 10 patients in the study (50% enrollment completed).

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About NurOwnNurOwn (autologous MSC-NTF cells) represent a promising investigational approach to targeting disease pathways important in neurodegenerative disorders. MSC-NTF cells are produced from autologous, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) that have been expanded and differentiated ex vivo. MSCs are converted into MSC-NTF cells by growing them under patented conditions that induce the cells to secrete high levels of neurotrophic factors. Autologous MSC-NTF cells can effectively deliver multiple NTFs and immunomodulatory cytokines directly to the site of damage to elicit a desired biological effect and ultimately slow or stabilize disease progression. NurOwn is currently being evaluated in a Phase 3 ALS randomized placebo-controlled trial and in a Phase 2 open-label multicenter trial in Progressive MS.

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About BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc.BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc.is a leading developer of innovative autologous adult stem cell therapeutics for debilitating neurodegenerative diseases. The Company holds the rights to clinical development and commercialization of the NurOwnCellular Therapeutic Technology Platform used to produce autologous MSC-NTF cells through an exclusive, worldwide licensing agreement as well as through its own patents, patent applications and proprietary know-how. Autologous MSC-NTF cells have received Orphan Drug status designation from theU.S. Food and Drug Administration(U.S.FDA) and theEuropean Medicines Agency(EMA) in ALS. Brainstorm has fully enrolled the Phase 3 pivotal trial in ALS (NCT03280056), investigating repeat-administration of autologous MSC-NTF cells at six sites in the U.S., supported by a grant from theCalifornia Institute for Regenerative Medicine(CIRM CLIN2-0989). The pivotal study is intended to support a BLA filing for U.S.FDAapproval of autologous MSC-NTF cells in ALS. Brainstorm received U.S.FDAclearance to initiate a Phase 2 open-label multi-center trial of repeat intrathecal dosing of MSC-NTF cells in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (NCT03799718) inDecember 2018and has been enrolling clinical trial participants sinceMarch 2019. For more information, visit the company'swebsite.

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Data On Enlivex’s Allocetra-OTS Immunotherapy for Peritoneal Solid Tumors and for Prevention of GvHD Selected for Presentation at the Transplantation…

Nes-Ziona, Israel, Feb. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ENLV), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, today announced that the company wasselected, for a scientific presentation of two posters: (i) Allocetra-OTS: Early Apoptotic Cells for Immune Homeostasis in Human Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) and for the Prevention of Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD), and (ii) Apoptotic Cells Reprogram Resident Macrophages to Support Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy Against Peritoneal Solid Tumor, at the Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings Conference of the ASTCT and CIBMTR (TCT), held on February 19-23, 2020, in Orlando, Florida.

Allocetra-OTS: Early Apoptotic Cells for Immune Homeostasis in Human Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) and for the Prevention of Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD)

Results from preclinical and clinical studiesy suggested that a single infusion of donor early apoptotic cells (Allocetra) as prophylaxis for GvHD in myeloablative HSCT is safe and potentially effective and led to 0% (0/6) of acute high grade II-IV GvHD in the two higher dosages compared to 52% in matched historical control. Enlivex is planning to initiate a Phase 2/3 multi-center, open-label, 2-arm study (ENX-CL-01-002), in Israel and Germany, that will evaluate the efficacy and safety of Allocetra-OTS (140x106cells/kg) with or without anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) for the prevention of GvHD in subjects undergoing HLA-matched HSCT from an unrelated donor.

Apoptotic Cells Reprogram Resident Macrophages to Support Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy Against Peritoneal Solid Tumor

Preclinical studies showed significantly increased duration of survival and overall survival for study subjects who were treated with the combination therapy, as compared to stand-alone solid tumor CAR-T therapy. The results of these preclinical studies showed that the mechanism of action significantly increased the anti-tumor macrophage population surrounding the human solid tumor microenvironment in the subjects who were treated with the combination therapy.

ALLOCETRATMby Enlivex was designed toprovide a novel immunotherapy mechanism of actionthat targets life-threatening clinical indications that are defined as unmet medical needs, includingprevention or treatment of complications associated with bone marrow transplantations (BMT) and/or hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (HSCT); organ dysfunction and acute multiple organ failure associated with sepsis; and enablement of an effective treatment of solid tumors via immune checkpoint rebalancing.

ABOUT ENLIVEXEnlivex is a clinical stage immunotherapy company, developing an allogeneic drug pipeline for immune system rebalancing. Immune system rebalancing is critical for the treatment of life-threatening immune and inflammatory conditions which involve an out of control immune system (e.g. Cytokine Release Syndrome) and for which there are no approved treatments (unmet medical needs), as well as solid tumors immune-checkpoint rebalancing. For more information, visit http://www.enlivex.com.

ABOUT EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATIONThe TCT | Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR (TCT Meetings) are the combined annual meetings of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) and the Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR).

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ENLIVEX CONTACT: Shachar Shlosberger, CFO Enlivex Therapeutics, Ltd.shachar@enlivex-pharm.com

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News Royal Oak native meets woman she saved with vital stem cell donation Jenn Schanz 11 – WXYZ

When you see Kelly Schneider and Alex Barr together, you'd think they go way back; they laugh at the same moments, seem to have inside jokes, and generally send off a vibe that they're old friends.

"Our families are both Middle Eastern, so we just have this connection. Weve just been gabbing and eating like we know each other," Schneider told Action News at her mother's house in Bloomfield Hills on Sunday.

It's where Barr and her mother came from the Boston area to meet Schneider and her family or the very first time in person, and to say thank you, since sharing something pretty personal back in August of 2018.

"I mean, she kind of is morphing into me now that she has my DNA. Thats how this works, right?" Schneider joked.

About a year earlier, in the summer of 2017 Barr, then in graduate school in the Boston area, learned she had Leukemia for the second time.

"It was just unreal. Like I couldnt even process it," Barr told Action News.

Barr didn't know it then, but Schneider had already signed up with Be The Match, and a national bone marrow registry, when she learned a close friend was diagnosed with cancer.

"We went and got tested and we donated blood. And unfortunately she did not survive. But after 4 or 5 months after she passed away, I got a call from Be The Match.

That call was on behalf of Barr, hoping Schneider might be willing to donate life-saving bone marrow.

Soon after, Schneider was getting treatment to donate stem cells from her bone marrow, to save Barr's life, who was still a stranger at the time.

All Schneider knew then was that her donation was going to help a 24-year-old from Michigan.

"How could you not? If someone needs it?" She said.

"When you hear bone marrow donation that sounds scary like theyre going to drill into your bone or something," Barr said, noting that it really wasn't as intense of a procedure as some people may think.

In this case, Schneider had to get a series of shots, the stem cells were collected, and then shipped to Boston for Barr, who is now in remission.

Its incredible. Like, I cant even describe. And I know that I would do the same," Barr said.

First, the two communicated communicated through the registry.

"We had been talking back and forth like online since September. I could tell that we would really hit it off," Barr told Action News.

Then, they decided to meet in person at Schneider's mother's house.

Not only do the two now share some of the same DNA, they keep finding other things they have in common.

Like a photo of Barr's cousin, which looks strikingly similar to Schneider.

I look like her! she said, pointing at the photo Barr brought with her.

For both Barr and Schneider, this full-circle experience is a reminder of how important the the Be The Match registry is, for the thousands of people waiting to find their life-saving donor, and just possibly, a life-long connection too.

Barr, who is now a healthy 26-year-old, is working in the health field. She works in the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), hoping to help others who have been diagnosed with potentially terminal diseases.

Barr said her experience beating Leukemia inspired her to go into the medical field as a biologist to study diseases of the blood.

She is a currently also a volunteer with Be The Match, and conducts her own registry drives as living proof of how important the registry is and how bone marrow donations can save lives.

Click here to join the register or the learn more about the Be The Match.

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UCLA researchers discover new compound that promotes lung health – Newswise

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Newswise A molecule identified by UCLA researchers helps maintain a healthy balance of cells in airway and lung tissue. If the compound, so far only studied in isolated human and mouse cells, has the same effect in people, it may lead to new drugs to treat or prevent lung cancer.

We think this could help us develop a new therapy that promotes airway health, said Dr. Brigitte Gomperts, a UCLA professor of pediatrics and of pulmonary medicine, a member of theEli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, and lead author of the study. This could not only inform the treatment of lung cancer, but help prevent its progression in the first place.

Humans respiratory systems are constantly being injured by pollution and germs in the air we breathe and must be replenished with healthy cells. That process is driven by airway basal stem cells, which divide to produce both more stem cells and the mucociliary cells that line the airways and lungs.

There are two types of mucociliary cells: mucus cells, which produce the mucus that trap toxic and infectious particles, and ciliated cells, which have finger-like projections that sweep the mucus away to keep the respiratory system healthy and clear. In healthy lungs, airway basal stem cells stay balanced between producing mucociliary cells and self-renewing to maintain a population of stem cells.

In precancerous cells in the lungs, basal stem cells divide more often than usual, generating a large number of stem cells but too few mucociliary cells. The resulting imbalance of cells in the airway leaves the airways unable to properly clear debris, and it creates a greater risk that the precancerous cells will give rise to a tumor.

In the new study, published today in Cell Reports, Gomperts and her colleagues analyzed airway cells from equal numbers of biopsies of healthy people, people with premalignant lung cancer lesions and people with squamous lung cancer. They discovered that one group of molecules collectively called the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway was present at different levels in the basal stem cells of the patient samples versus the cells from healthy people.

And when the researchers altered the levels of these molecules in healthy airway cells from mice, the balance between stem cells and mucociliary cells shifted, mimicking the imbalance seen in lung pre-cancers.

When you activate the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway, these stem cells just divide and divide, said Gomperts, who is also a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Finally, the team screened more than 20,000 chemical compounds for their ability to reverse this effect in human cells, lowering levels of Wnt and restoring the balance of stem cells and mature airway cells.

One compound stood out for its ability to limit the proliferation of basal stem cells and restore the balance of the stem cells and mucociliary cells to normal. The compound was also less toxic to airway cells than other, previously discovered, molecules that block Wnt/beta-catenin signaling. The team named the compound Wnt Inhibitor Compound 1, or WIC1.

The identification of this new drug is a nice tool to tease apart the biology of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway and its effects on lung health, said Cody Aros, the first author of the new paper and a UCLA graduate student. Its also very exciting that it may act in a new way than other existing Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway inhibitors and has such low toxicity.

Since WIC1 was identified through a random drug screen, the researchers dont yet know exactly how it works, but theyre planning future studies on its mechanism and safety.

The compound tested by the researchers was used in preclinical tests only and has not been tested in humans or approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe and effective for use in humans.

The newly identified compound is covered by a patent application filed by the UCLA Technology Development Group on behalf of the Regents of the University of California, with Gomperts and Aros as co-inventors.

Funding for the study was provided in part by the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program and the Broad Stem Cell Research Center Training Program, including support from the Rose Hills Foundation Graduate Scholarship.

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