Implementing a new clinical CAR T program: Manufacturing your own!

When:  Sep 15, 2022 from 08:00 to 09:00 (PT)


Implementing a New Clinical CAR T Program: Manufacturing Your Own!

Webinar 1 of the ISCT Americas Webinar Series. 

Presented by the ISCT North America and South & Central America Regional Executive Committees


Sponsored in part by Miltenyi Biotec

 

 

Webinar Description:

Hundreds of institutions now have access to commercial CAR T cells, but in parallel many institutions globally are looking to implement a more decentralized approach using partnerships or commercially available vectors and devices. Here we describe what is required to get these programs up and running and how they can be implemented globally – including in developing countries.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • How to set up a new decentralized CAR T program
  • What regulatory steps are required
  • What challenges to expect along the way


Co-Chaired By: 

Patrick Hanley, PhD
ISCT North America Regional Vice-President
Children's National Hospital
Washington, DC, United States


Milena Soares, BSc, PhD
ISCT SCA Regional Vice-President Elect
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

 

Speakers:

Martin Bonamino, PhD
National Cancer Institute of Brazil (INCA)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Implementing a CAR-T initiative at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute

Martin Bonamino received his PhD in biological chemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2004. Since 2005 he lead a group developing cell and gene immunotherapies at the Brazilian National Cancer institute in Rio de Janeiro. They were the pioneer group in Brazil in CAR-T cell development and have contributed to the field by developing protocols for cost-effective generation of such cell products. From 2015 he also joined the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, the largest health institution in Brazil, where he co-coordinate the recently established institutional program for cancer research.

In addition to contributing to the cancer, tumor immunology, synthetic biology and gene therapy fields, he had the opportunity to contribute to the establishment of the regulatory framework for cell and gene therapies in Brazil as a member of the advisory committee of ANVISA, the Brazilian regulatory agency.

Nirav Shah, MD, MSHP
Medical College of Wisconsin
Madison, USA

 
Building a New CART T Program

Nirav Shah, MD, MSHP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of Hematology and Oncology, specializing in lymphoma, CAR-T cell therapy, and stem cell transplant at Froedtert Hospital. He graduated with honors and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society membership from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 2008. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 2011. Post-residency, he took a position at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Hospitalist medicine before proceeding to the University of Pennsylvania where he completed both hematology/oncology fellowship and a Master’s degree in Health Policy research in 2015. His research focus involves the development of novel CAR therapies for B-cell malignancies and is currently leading several trials utilizing a bispecific CAR20.19 construct.

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