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Passing CARs

Triumvira is co-opting native T cell receptors to create safer CAR T therapies

December 2, 2016 9:31 PM UTC

CAR T therapies have produced profound responses in hematological cancers, but also severe toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome. Triumvira Immunologics Inc.’s T Cell-Antigen Coupler platform combines the specificity of chimeric antigen receptors with the native regulatory mechanisms of T cell receptors to reduce the risk of cytokine-related toxicities.

The biotech’s T Cell-Antigen Couplers (TACs) accomplish this by signaling through the TCR complex.
A typical CAR comprises an extracellular antigen-specific domain fused to a transmembrane domain and at least one intracellular co-stimulatory domain. T cells bearing the CAR kill cells that express the corresponding antigen independently of the TCR signaling complex...

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