Lennart Lenk, Irène Baccelli, Anna Laqua, Julia Heymann, Claas Reimer, Anna Dietterle, Dorothee Winterberg, Caroline Mary, Frédérique Corallo, Julien Taurelle, Emma Narbeburu, Stéphanie Lara Neyton, Mylène Déramé, Sabrina Pengam, Fotini Vogiatzi, Beat Bornhauser, Jean-Pierre Bourquin, Simon Raffel, Vladyslava Dovhan, Thomas Schüler, Gabriele Escherich, Monique L den Boer, Judith M Boer, Wiebke Wessels, Matthias Peipp, Julia Alten, Željko Antić, Anke Katharina Bergmann, Martin Schrappe, Gunnar Cario, Monika Brüggemann, Nicolas Poirier, Denis M Schewe
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) arises from the uncontrolled proliferation of precursor B or T cells (BCP- or T-ALL). Current treatment protocols obtain high cure rates in children but are based on toxic polychemotherapy. Novel therapies are urgently needed, especially in relapsed/refractory (r/r) disease, high-risk leukemias and T-ALL, where immunotherapy approaches remain scarce. While the Interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R) plays a pivotal role in ALL development, no IL-7R-targeting immunotherapy has yet reached clinical application in ALL...
March 22, 2024: Blood