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ReviewNpj imaging2025

Practical considerations for clinical translation of PET imaging of adoptive cell therapies.

Alessia Volpe, Jonathan Pham, Mark A Sellmyer, Vladimir Ponomarev

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Review in Npj imaging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alessia Volpe *Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jonathan Pham *Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mark A SellmyerDepartment of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. mark.sellmyer@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Vladimir PonomarevDepartment of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. ponomarv@mskcc.org.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Regulation of eDHFR-tagged proteins with trimethoprim PROTACsR01GM150804 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Mark A Sellmyer · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR CRI5589NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM150804NIH HHS R01 CA220524-01A1The Center for Experimental Immuno-Oncology Fellowship Award AWD00000754The Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research Fellowship Award AWD00002441The Tow Foundation and Center for Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology (CMINT) Fellowship Award AWD00002040
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research and development programs for adoptive cell therapies continue to expand, but few products make it to late-phase clinical trials, and even fewer receive FDA approval. Despite undergoing extensive validation before entering the trial phase, variable results may be observed in patients due to inherent differences between preclinical models and human subjects as well as heterogeneity between tumors. Moreover, the current clinical evaluation of cell therapies, including CAR-T cells, relies on limited or inconclusive approaches - usually blood sampling or tissue biopsies - lacking spatial and temporal information about their fate in the human body. Here we offer our perspective on how the application of PET imaging to track cell therapies in clinical studies could address these shortcomings and enhance our understanding of cell therapy biodistribution, patients and trial-level therapeutic success or failure, and safety considerations. We further address key challenges, from probe development to methodological, technical, and regulatory, and financial hurdles for integrating PET imaging of cell therapies into clinical studies.

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PMID41286003
PMCPMC12644674

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