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In Vitro Tumor Cell Rechallenge For Predictive Evaluation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Antitumor Function
Published on: February 27, 2019
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapies: A Review of Cellular Kinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling Approaches
Anwesha Chaudhury1, Xu Zhu2, Lulu Chu3
1Pharmacometrics, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T cell) therapies have shown significant efficacy in CD19+ leukemias and lymphomas. There remain many challenges and questions for improving next-generation CAR-T cell therapies, and mathematical modeling of CAR-T cells may play a role in supporting further development. In this review, we introduce a mathematical modeling taxonomy for a set of relatively simple cellular kinetic-pharmacodynamic models that describe the in vivo dynamics of CAR-T cell and their interactions with cancer cells. We then discuss potential extensions of this model to include target binding, tumor distribution, cytokine-release syndrome, immunophenotype differentiation, and genotypic heterogeneity.

