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Lymphodepletion followed by infusion of suicide gene-transduced donor lymphocytes to safely enhance their antitumor effect: a phase I/II study

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We thank P Jouany, S Katsahian and V Millul for study management, C Pautas and Y Hicheri for clinical care and E Atti and T Berthy for technical assistance (all in Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France). The study was sponsored and monitored by the Regional Clinical Research Office, Paris and supported by a grant from the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique (PHRC ID, P 010506) and recurrent funding from the Centers for Clinical Investigation in Biotherapy from the Henri Mondor and Pitié-Salpêtrière hospitals. The sponsors had no role in study design, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the report.

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SM, JLC, FML and DK are inventors of a patent application claiming the association of lymphodepletion with suicide gene transduction and Treg depletion of DLI. JLC, FML and DK are shareholders of LTKfarma, a company developing suicide gene-modified T cells for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Maury, S., Rosenzwajg, M., Redjoul, R. et al. Lymphodepletion followed by infusion of suicide gene-transduced donor lymphocytes to safely enhance their antitumor effect: a phase I/II study. Leukemia 28, 2406–2410 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.237

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