THE IMPORTANCE
OF CAR T CELL THERAPY
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy is a new treatment for cancer in which a patient's T cells (a type of immune cell) are genetically engineered to recognize cancer cells to target and destroy them. Cells are extracted from the patient and then genetically engineered to make the CAR and are re-introduced back into the patient. Currently approved CAR T therapies are revolutionizing the treatment of many blood cancers including B cell leukemias and lymphomas by targeting specific proteins found on these cancers, and there is hope in treating additional cancers including solid tumors by having them recognize new targets.
WHAT is
SNAP-CAR AND HOW DOES IT TARGET CERTAIN CANCERS?
Coeptis has licensed a CAR T cell therapy platform called "SNAP-CAR" to be a universal therapeutic. The SNAP-CAR technology is in preclinical development at the University of Pittsburgh. Instead of directly binding to a target on the tumor cell, the CAR T cells are co-administered with one or more antibody adaptors that bind to the tumor cells and are fitted with a chemical group that irreversibly connects them to the SNAP-CAR on the therapeutic cells via a covalent bond. A covalent bond is the highest affinity bond possible, thus this binding is expected to translate to highly potent therapeutic activity.
SNAP-CAR,
A HIGHLY PROGRAMMABLE THERAPEUTIC PLATFORM
Pre-clinical studies in mice have demonstrated by targeting tumors via antibody adaptor molecules, the SNAP-CAR therapy provides a highly programmable therapeutic platform that may present several potential advantages over standard CAR T treatments.
