Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Tumor response and endogenous immune reactivity after administration of HER2 CAR T cells in a child with metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma

  • Meenakshi Hegde,
  • Sujith K. Joseph,
  • Farzana Pashankar,
  • Christopher DeRenzo,
  • Khaled Sanber,
  • Shoba Navai,
  • Tiara T. Byrd,
  • John Hicks,
  • Mina L. Xu,
  • Claudia Gerken,
  • Mamta Kalra,
  • Catherine Robertson,
  • Huimin Zhang,
  • Ankita Shree,
  • Birju Mehta,
  • Olga Dakhova,
  • Vita S. Salsman,
  • Bambi Grilley,
  • Adrian Gee,
  • Gianpietro Dotti,
  • Helen E. Heslop,
  • Malcolm K. Brenner,
  • Winfried S. Wels,
  • Stephen Gottschalk,
  • Nabil Ahmed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17175-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Recurrent metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma remains largely incurable. Here, the authors describe a child with metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma who has durable response to HER2-specific CAR T cells and shows endogenous immune reactivity.