Cynthia C. Bartholomae

TL;DR: Lentiviral-mediated gene therapy of hematopoietic stem cells can provide clinical benefits in ALD, and progressive cerebral demyelination in the two patients stopped, a clinical outcome comparable to that achieved by allogeneic HCT.

TL;DR: The occurrence of clonal T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) promoted by insertional mutagenesis in a completed gene therapy trial of 10 SCID-X1 patients is described and a general toxicity of endogenous gammaretroviral enhancer elements is highlighted.

TL;DR: An integrative deep-sequencing analysis of 125 tumour–normal pairs enhances the understanding of the genomic complexity and heterogeneity underlying medulloblastoma, and provides several potential targets for new therapeutics, especially for Group 3 and 4 patients.

TL;DR: The results validate a much-needed platform to assess vector safety and provide direct evidence that prototypical lentiviral vectors have low oncogenic potential, highlighting a major rationale for application to gene therapy.

TL;DR: Recurrent activating mutations in FGFR1 and PTPN11 and new NTRK2 fusion genes in non-cerebellar tumors and new BRAF-activating changes were observed, indicating that pilocytic astrocytoma is predominantly a single-pathway disease.