Ziopharm Oncology to Present Poster at American Association for Cancer Research Virtual 2021 Annual Meeting
The poster highlights work evaluating the ability of the non-viral Sleeping Beauty transposon/transposase gene transfer system to re-direct the specificity of T cells towards p53 and KRAS neoantigens and characterizing the resultant engineered TCR-T cell populations for specificity and function.
The poster is entitled “Hotspot mutations in KRAS and TP53 targeted by TCR-T cells genetically modified with the Sleeping Beauty transposon/transposase system.”
The work summarized in the poster demonstrates that multiple TCRs with unique specificities targeting recurrent p53 and KRAS substitutions in frequent HLA haplotypes could be stably expressed using Sleeping Beauty transposition to re-direct peripheral blood T cells towards tumor cells.
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The poster will be presented as part of Session PO.IM02.01 - Adoptive Cell Therapy. The abstract for the poster can be found on the AACR website using this link. The poster will be available for conference participants beginning at
About Ziopharm Oncology, Inc.
Ziopharm is developing non-viral and cytokine-driven cell and gene therapies that weaponize the body’s immune system to treat the millions of people globally diagnosed with cancer each year. With its multiplatform approach, Ziopharm is at the forefront of immuno-oncology. Ziopharm’s pipeline is built for commercially scalable, cost effective T-cell receptor T-cell therapies based on its non-viral Sleeping Beauty gene transfer platform, a rapidly manufactured Sleeping Beauty-enabled CD19-specific CAR-T program, and a precisely controlled IL-12 gene therapy. The Company has clinical and strategic collaborations with the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please visit www.ziopharm.com.
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