Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy’s Post

ACGT Research Fellows Nabil Ahmed, MD, and Meenakshi Hegde, MD (both of Baylor College of Medicine) led a phase 1 clinical trial using CAR T-cell therapy for advanced sarcoma. Drs. Ahmed and Hegde's CAR T cells target the HER2 protein, which is overexpressed on the surface of sarcoma cells. The HEROS 2.0 trial showed that this therapeutic approach is safe and associated with clinical benefit. One patient is cancer-free more than five years after treatment. Read more about the study: https://lnkd.in/d-V2G464

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