CAR T: A New Twist on Transplants for Cancer Patients

The presentation in this video is presented by Dr. Krishna Komanduri who is Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology and is the Director of the Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program and Associate Director for Clinical Innovation at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Hear Dr. Komanduri discuss:

• cellular therapies that are important and emerging for blood cancer patients
• perspectives on the evolution of allogeneic hematopoietic transplantation
• basics of T-cell biology
• the science of emerging T cell immunotherapies, including CAR-T
• explanation of the process of immunotherapy treatment
• side effects and their treatments
• positive lessons from hematopoietic cell transplantation to T-cell therapies
• concerns about access to treatment
• limitations of immunotherapy

This video is 50 minutes followed by a 25 minute Q & A session;