Project description:This study is for patients with lymphoproliferative malignancies that have progressed after receiving a previous treatment (relapsed) or are no longer responding to treatment (refractory). To be in this study, patients must have certain types of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL), peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL), or B-cell lymphoma, including Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.
This study is being done to find doses of the combination of pralatrexate and gemcitabine with vitamin B12 and folic acid that can be safely given to patients with these types of lymphoma and explore the effectiveness of the treatment.
Project description:In this study, we evaluated clonal Waldenström macroglobulinemia cells with mapping of maturation stages of B cell lymphomagenesis concurrently with the innate and adaptive immune tumor microenvironment in active WM patients (newly diagnosed (NDWM, n = 19) and relapsed or relapsed/refractory (RRWM, n = 42) compared to 10 healthy donors (HD) by mass cytometry.
Project description:Peripheral blood samples of 3 refractory/relapsed AML patients (R/R-AML, relapsed/refractory AML patients who failed to achieve complete remission/CR after 2 courses of induction chemotherapy), 3 refractory secondary AML patients (S-AML, MDS or MPN derived AML patients did not reach CR after 2 rounds of induction chemotherapy), 4 de novo AML patients (AML, CR after standard “3+7” induction chemotherapy), and 3 healthy controls (HC) were collected. Nanodrop was applied to quantify the total RNA samples. Illumina kits were used to prepare the RNA-seq library.
Project description:This is a Phase 1 multi-center study to assess the safety and efficacy of TGR-1202 as a single agent or in combination with nab-paclitaxel + gemcitabine or with FOLFOX in patients with select relapsed or refractory solid tumors.
Project description:To identify genomic alterations contributing to the pathogenesis of high‑risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) beyond the well‑established role of TP53 aberrations, we comprehensively analyzed 146 high‑risk CLL cases by single‑nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)‑arrays and targeted next‑generation sequencing including 75 relapsed/refractory and 71 treatment‑naïve high‑risk cases from prospective clinical trials. Increased genomic complexity was a hallmark of relapsed/refractory and treatment‑naïve high‑risk CLL, and was associated with TP53 and ATM dysfunction. In relapsed/refractory cases previously exposed to the selective pressure of chemo(immuno)therapy, gain(8)(q24.21) and del(9)(p21.3) were found particularly enriched. Both of these copy number alterations (CNAs) affected key regulators of cell cycle progression, namely c‑MYC and CDKN2A/B. Gains in 8q24.21 were either focal gains in a c‑MYC enhancer region or larger gains directly affecting the c‑MYC locus, but only the latter type was highly enriched in relapsed/refractory CLL (17%). Loss of CDKN2A/B was found frequently to co‑occur with gain of c‑MYC and in this combination it was likely associated with Richter transformation. In addition to a high frequency of NOTCH1 mutations (23%), we found recurrent genetic alterations in SPEN (4% mutated), RBPJ (8% deleted) and SNW1 (8% deleted), all affecting a protein complex that represses transcription of NOTCH1 target genes. We investigated the functional impact of these alterations on HES1, DTX1 and c‑MYC gene transcription and found de‑repression of these NOTCH1 target genes particularly with SPEN mutations. In summary, we provide new insights into the pathogenesis of high‑risk CLL by defining novel recurrent CNAs and identifying alterations that likely contribute to disease refractoriness.
