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Overview

Christine E. Brown is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in oncology, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, and biomedical engineering. The scientist's broad expertise lies in the area of CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects, glioma diagnosis and treatment, nanowire synthesis and applications, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, and immune cell function and interaction.

Notable recent papers by Christine E. Brown and colleagues include:

  • Locoregional delivery of IL-13Rα2-targeting CAR-T cells in recurrent high-grade glioma: a phase 1 trial, 2024, Nature Medicine
  • Systematically optimized BCMA/CS1 bispecific CAR-T cells robustly control heterogeneous multiple myeloma, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Chlorotoxin-directed CAR T cells for specific and effective targeting of glioblastoma, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Chimeric antigen receptor signaling: Functional consequences and design implications, 2020, Science Advances
  • CRISPR Screening of CAR T Cells and Cancer Stem Cells Reveals Critical Dependencies for Cell-Based Therapies, 2020, Cancer Discovery

Frequent collaborators include Stephen J. Forman, Behnam Badie, Brenda Aguilar, Renate Starr, and Russell C. Rockne. The volume of joint publications indicates a continuing collaborative research approach with these scientists.

The scientist's research appears prominently in several publication venues, including:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Immunology Research
  • Frontiers in Immunology

The work consistently spans multiple medical disciplines, with oncology representing the majority of the research output. Subfields such as immunology and molecular biology play a significant role in supporting the understanding of CAR-T therapies and related immunological treatments. Associated topics emphasize therapeutic innovation in cancer treatment, immune responses, and targeted cell therapies for difficult-to-treat malignancies including gliomas and multiple myeloma.

Best Publications

  • Regression of Glioblastoma after Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy

    Brown Ce;Alizadeh D;Starr R;Weng L

  • Bioactivity and Safety of IL13Rα2-Redirected Chimeric Antigen Receptor CD8+ T Cells in Patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma

    Christine E. Brown;Behnam Badie;Michael E. Barish;Lihong Weng

  • The many HATs of transcription coactivators.

    Christine E Brown;Thomas Lechner;LeAnn Howe;Jerry L Workman

  • Recruitment of HAT complexes by direct activator interactions with the ATM-related Tra1 subunit.

    Christine E. Brown;LeAnn Howe;Kyle Sousa;Stephen C. Alley

  • T cells expressing CD123-specific chimeric antigen receptors exhibit specific cytolytic effector functions and antitumor effects against human acute myeloid leukemia

    Armen Mardiros;Cedric Dos Santos;Tinisha McDonald;Christine E. Brown

  • Specific Recognition and Killing of Glioblastoma Multiforme by Interleukin 13-Zetakine Redirected Cytolytic T Cells

    Kanwarpal S. Kahlon;Christine Brown;Laurence J. N. Cooper;Andrew Raubitschek

  • Poly(A) Tail Length Control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Occurs by Message-Specific Deadenylation

    Christine E. Brown;Alan B. Sachs

  • IL15 Enhances CAR-T Cell Antitumor Activity by Reducing mTORC1 Activity and Preserving Their Stem Cell Memory Phenotype

    Darya Alizadeh;Robyn A. Wong;Xin Yang;Dongrui Wang

  • Phase 1 studies of central memory–derived CD19 CAR T–cell therapy following autologous HSCT in patients with B-cell NHL

    Xiuli Wang;Leslie L. Popplewell;Jamie R. Wagner;Araceli Naranjo

  • Regional Delivery of Chimeric Antigen Receptor–Engineered T Cells Effectively Targets HER2+ Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Brain

    Saul J. Priceman;Dileshni Tilakawardane;Brook Jeang;Brenda Aguilar

  • Reporter gene imaging of targeted T cell immunotherapy in recurrent glioma.

    Khun Visith Keu;Timothy H. Witney;Timothy H. Witney;Shahriar Yaghoubi;Jarrett Rosenberg

  • Neural stem cell-mediated enzyme/prodrug therapy for glioma: preclinical studies.

    Karen S. Aboody;Joseph Najbauer;Marianne Z. Metz;Massimo D’Apuzzo

  • Optimization of IL13Rα2-Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for Improved Anti-tumor Efficacy against Glioblastoma.

    Christine E. Brown;Brenda Aguilar;Renate Starr;Xin Yang

  • Stem-like Tumor-Initiating Cells Isolated from IL13Rα2 Expressing Gliomas Are Targeted and Killed by IL13-Zetakine–Redirected T Cells

    Christine E. Brown;Renate Starr;Brenda Aguilar;Andrew F. Shami

  • PAN3 encodes a subunit of the Pab1p-dependent poly(A) nuclease in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Christine E. Brown;Salvador Z. Tarun;Ronald Boeck;Andalan B. Sachs

  • Transcription Activator Interactions with Multiple SWI/SNF Subunits

    Kristen E. Neely;Ahmed H. Hassan;Christine E. Brown;LeAnn Howe

  • Targeting Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP)-MHC Complex with CAR T-Cell Therapy for Liver Cancer.

    Hong Liu;Yiyang Xu;Jingyi Xiang;Li Long

  • Chimeric Antigen Receptors T Cell Therapy in Solid Tumor: Challenges and Clinical Applications.

    Hamid R. Mirzaei;Analiz Rodriguez;Jennifer Shepphird;Christine E. Brown

  • Chimeric Antigen Receptors With Mutated IgG4 Fc Spacer Avoid Fc Receptor Binding and Improve T Cell Persistence and Antitumor Efficacy

    Mahesh Jonnalagadda;Armen Mardiros;Ryan Urak;Xiuli Wang

  • Tumor PD-L1 co-stimulates primary human CD8(+) cytotoxic T cells modified to express a PD1:CD28 chimeric receptor.

    Megan E. Prosser;Christine E. Brown;Andrew F. Shami;Stephen J. Forman

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Forman
Stephen J. Forman City Of Hope National Medical Center
Michael C. Jensen
Michael C. Jensen Seattle Children's Hospital
Xiwei Wu
Xiwei Wu City Of Hope National Medical Center
Jerry L. Workman
Jerry L. Workman Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Stanley R. Riddell
Stanley R. Riddell University of Washington
Laurence J.N. Cooper
Laurence J.N. Cooper The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
John E. Shively
John E. Shively City Of Hope National Medical Center
Don J. Diamond
Don J. Diamond City Of Hope National Medical Center
Hideho Okada
Hideho Okada University of California, San Francisco
Alan B. Sachs
Alan B. Sachs Thermo Fisher Scientific (United States)

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