Immunotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Promises and Challenges
June 24, 2020Chen Liu, MD, PhD
Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds | June 23, 2020
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- 00:00Thank you all for
- 00:03joining us it's a real privilege
- 00:06today to welcome our new chair
- 00:09of pathology at Yale,
- 00:12Doctor Chen
- 00:14Liu is the Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology
- 00:18who joined us on March 1st?
- 00:20So really right
- 00:22into the thick of it.
- 00:26And in the short time he's been
- 00:29here he has
- 00:31Collaborated with all of us,
- 00:34particularly in his efforts to
- 00:36champion the testing efforts that were
- 00:40essential in our response to COVID.
- 00:43Chen received his training in China
- 00:46received his postgraduate training
- 00:49at Peking Medical College,
- 00:52his PhD in pathology at University of
- 00:55Pennsylvania and most recently had
- 00:59served as the chair of pathology immunology
- 01:02and Laboratory Medicine,
- 01:03as well as the chair of the center
- 01:07of dermatology at the Robert Wood
- 01:10Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.
- 01:12Chen's career has been focused on the
- 01:15work in viral hepatitis liver cancer
- 01:17immunotherapy graph versus host disease,
- 01:20as well as cancer epigenetics,
- 01:22where he's made important
- 01:24contributions in all of these areas.
- 01:27Really understanding mechanisms of
- 01:29carcinogenesis defining cancer
- 01:30biomarkers and equally importantly developing
- 01:33new therapeutic approaches and
- 01:34we're really so privileged to have
- 01:37Chen not only as the new chair,
- 01:39but as a member of our Cancer Center,
- 01:42and this really gives us, I think,
- 01:45really great additional expertise and
- 01:47strength among the talent we have here.
- 01:54Thank you very much Charlie,
- 01:56for that
- 01:57nice introduction and also more
- 01:59importantly, thank you for the
- 02:01opportunity to present this talk.
- 02:25Just briefly, I am a liver
- 02:28GI pathologist so I'm actually practicing
- 02:31in the clinical
- 02:33service and I'm also a pretty
- 02:36good mouse pathologist in general,
- 02:38so I think basically I serve
- 02:40as a sort of expert
- 02:43consultant.
- 03:30So today
- 03:31I would adjust the
- 03:33top one of the you know.
- 03:34You know main research project
- 03:36and you might laboratory,
- 03:38which is sort of how to divide
- 03:40up how to developer mode.
- 03:42Effective email Sara pay for
- 03:45hyper cellular carcinoma.
- 03:47OK, so good.
- 03:48So uh, as you know a better seller cars.
- 03:52Nobody is very deadly disease.
- 03:54You know it's actually really they
- 03:56will come and you know we have almost
- 03:59600,000 new cases a year globally.
- 04:02In contrast to many other type of cancers,
- 04:05you know.
- 04:06Mostly theology is a relatively well not.
- 04:09For instance,
- 04:09you can see it's almost 80% of those
- 04:12cases are caused by two viruses,
- 04:15hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus is,
- 04:17and then the other,
- 04:19so you know it's a toxin alcohol awesome.
- 04:22Recently fatty liver disease and
- 04:24some metabolic liver disease.
- 04:25You know you know all contributed to
- 04:28the etiology of hyper server carcinoma.
- 04:30I think one thing in common is in
- 04:33majority of the cases an there
- 04:35is long standing.
- 04:37Monitor liver disease and
- 04:38then develop chronic.
- 04:39You know you know hepatitis
- 04:41and also cirrhosis,
- 04:42which is almost like a
- 04:44precancerous condition,
- 04:45and then become my father Cellular
- 04:47Carcinoma because of this uniquely
- 04:49theology and the pathogenesis there at
- 04:52least two things we can think about.
- 04:54Why is the best way to eliminate it's,
- 04:58you know cancer is really with it is emitted,
- 05:01the ideology. So in this case,
- 05:03if you can eliminate hepatitis B,
- 05:06hepatitis C with.
- 05:07Pretty much he limited 80% of the of
- 05:11the cancer, so hepatitis B vaccine has
- 05:15been practice of over multiple decades.
- 05:18I think the data is already show because
- 05:21of the widespread you know like seen
- 05:26vaccination against hepatitis speed,
- 05:28the incidence of liver cancer indeed has
- 05:32seen trending down in the hepatitis B.
- 05:36Prevalent regions and so the other thing is.
- 05:41Question is because there is a
- 05:44longstanding process for, you know,
- 05:46from the initial lever insult to the
- 05:48cancer formation is you already talked?
- 05:51We're talking about a 20 to 30 years and
- 05:54then we do have very high risk population,
- 05:58so we know this high risk population,
- 06:01so this provides a window of opportunity for
- 06:04us to develop ball markers or something.
- 06:07Therapeutic interventions.
- 06:08In other words,
- 06:09we can identify the underlying pathogenesis
- 06:11and hopefully we can identify targets.
- 06:14And to intervene to prevent out trade.
- 06:18Now I've had this order carcinoma,
- 06:21so currently you know.
- 06:23Unfortunately the you know,
- 06:25liver cancer therapy is really behind
- 06:28too many of other solid tumors.
- 06:31We did not have really big progress.
- 06:34You know,
- 06:35for hyper server carcinoma therapy
- 06:38and there is absolutely unmet
- 06:40need in this cancer,
- 06:43so we were transplantation can be
- 06:45considered as a curatives therapy.
- 06:48If we had identified the tumor
- 06:50earlier and also there is a lever
- 06:53available for their patients,
- 06:55those can be considered cured.
- 06:57Killer and the surgical resection is,
- 07:00you know,
- 07:01has been performed by the recurrence is,
- 07:04you know it's almost 70% of patients
- 07:06after the surgical resection.
- 07:08So overall,
- 07:09with the typical therapy currently,
- 07:11you know the three year survival
- 07:14is still less than 20%.
- 07:16And, uh, in about a 10 years ago that,
- 07:20uh, one first therapy was approved,
- 07:22which is arrive in a, you know.
- 07:25So resonator is terrorism Chinese
- 07:27inhibitor and so that only showed moderate
- 07:30effect in the small number of patients.
- 07:33And all only the pasta two or three years
- 07:36we have seen in another momentum which
- 07:39is a checkpoint inhibitors role in the
- 07:42treatment of other Cellular Carcinoma.
- 07:44So we can talk a little bit more about the
- 07:48checkpoint inhibitors in nice to feel slides.
- 07:52So first of all,
- 07:53these are the tires in kind is
- 07:55currently being tried and approved
- 07:57of tested in hypothetical carcinoma.
- 07:59So rifle name wrecker ever made
- 08:02neighbor which is basically another
- 08:03version of the revenue and then
- 08:05the other tools also tested.
- 08:07But all of those types and kindness is.
- 08:10It's really more broad inhibitors
- 08:12rather than specific target,
- 08:13so it's been believed.
- 08:15You know those kind of.
- 08:17You know the haters.
- 08:19But you hate this kinase activity,
- 08:22and you know inconsequence surprised
- 08:24to know vascularization or really
- 08:27play some sort of anti angiogenesis
- 08:30effect so you know we have
- 08:33actually also shown that you know,
- 08:35for example, survivor name can also
- 08:38interfere. The mitochondria is in a
- 08:41particular carcinoma. In other words,
- 08:43they're probably multiple mechanism for
- 08:46the tyrosine kinase mechanism of action.
- 08:49We have had our cars in them and I would
- 08:52like to show you this slice and this is a uh,
- 08:56you know, you know, uh,
- 08:58the slides made by a charmer and Addison,
- 09:01so this tell you,
- 09:02you know how you know the therapy.
- 09:04You can see the chemotherapy,
- 09:06you know this is for cancer as a whole.
- 09:09So one thing you can tell you
- 09:11can see the email server which
- 09:13represented by this green line is,
- 09:16you know, certainly is superior
- 09:17to any other sort of monotherapy.
- 09:20However, if you combine the
- 09:22Indian up check behind it,
- 09:24therapy with more targeted,
- 09:26you know genomically targeted agent,
- 09:28you can see dramatic improvement,
- 09:30so that's probably why you know the
- 09:33email therapy attract such attention.
- 09:35I think as you know over the past
- 09:38decade we have been talking a lot about
- 09:40the email therapy and particularly
- 09:43the clinical application of female
- 09:45checkpoint inhibitor really created
- 09:48this momentum for cancer therapy.
- 09:51Alright,
- 09:51so with that background,
- 09:53will see you how to look at the liver.
- 09:56So what is the unique aspect unique
- 09:59aspect of carcinoma?
- 10:01So this I have to say we have not much
- 10:04understanding on the overall immunology
- 10:07or you know biology of the liver as
- 10:11well as the hypothetical question.
- 10:13So we were had.
- 10:14It has been considered as a
- 10:16immunologically tolerant organ,
- 10:18and that means you know there
- 10:21are data shows all the humans.
- 10:23Activity cells actually are
- 10:25eliminate in liver.
- 10:26In other words, in the liver is,
- 10:29well, very well protected.
- 10:31And the dancing in the in deliver,
- 10:34you know you have a wait.
- 10:37There are a lot of energy
- 10:39and presenting cells.
- 10:40However,
- 10:41there are data shows.
- 10:42Most of the antigen presenting cells
- 10:45actually induced or you know Tara
- 10:47Jennifer phenotype rather than,
- 10:49you know,
- 10:50activate the cellular immunity and as
- 10:52well as I mentioned earlier majority
- 10:54for the hyper Cellular carcinoma is
- 10:56actually rising from the background
- 10:59of chronic viral infections,
- 11:00hepatitis B, hepatitis C.
- 11:02So this has been known.
- 11:04All has been extensively studied.
- 11:06Long standing chronic very affection,
- 11:08actually rendering T cell exhaustion.
- 11:10So this is another challenge is we
- 11:13have to think about when we talk
- 11:16about how to develop more effective
- 11:18immunotherapy for Heather Cellular
- 11:20Carcinoma so that you know that.
- 11:24Also HTC, you know it has a very
- 11:27higher expression of PD L1.
- 11:29You know?
- 11:30P DL1 is alignment for PD one.
- 11:33So those engagement
- 11:34actually surprised that I.
- 11:36Activated you know anti tumor teazles.
- 11:39That's probably why this is,
- 11:41uh,
- 11:41you know how you use.
- 11:43You know you can actually use
- 11:46checkpoint inhibitor to block this
- 11:48interaction between TDLPDL One and 51.
- 11:51The other aspect is there are many
- 11:53regulatory T cells in hypothetical carcinoma.
- 11:56So we have shown you know that
- 11:59there is a higher number of
- 12:01regulatory T cell as well as as
- 12:04myeloid derived.
- 12:06The tumors surprise if TS LMDS sees,
- 12:08so those are the challenges
- 12:11we have to consider.
- 12:12And then you know when put
- 12:15all these things together,
- 12:16you know the probably we need
- 12:18to think about the multiple
- 12:21strategy to really develop a more
- 12:24effective immunotherapy for HTC.
- 12:26And now you know,
- 12:28staying is more broadly.
- 12:29Currently in clinical application
- 12:31also has been very exciting.
- 12:34Is a checkpoint in Hibbett are
- 12:36you see the impact will check
- 12:39component inhibitors really is act
- 12:42on multiple spy type of the middle.
- 12:45You know regulation most
- 12:47specifically blocking PDYPTL.
- 12:49Interaction.
- 12:49So the other so you can think
- 12:53about is to really eliminate.
- 12:56Also at least inhibit
- 12:58regulatory T cell in the cancer,
- 13:00and the other is so more exciting.
- 13:03You know,
- 13:04that's what I'm going to
- 13:06talk about a little bit more.
- 13:09Is adoptive cell transfer therapy
- 13:11for those adoptive transfer therapy.
- 13:13We really can't think about Tuesday.
- 13:16Why is non antigen specific, you know?
- 13:19Autologous tiles,
- 13:19for example, in case hours,
- 13:21all tumor infiltrating the
- 13:23emphasize and then the other,
- 13:25is actually another modified
- 13:26version of adoptive cell transfer.
- 13:28Transfer therapy is engineering T cells,
- 13:31so this will be the car T cells.
- 13:34Also, I will spend a little bit time to.
- 13:37Another thing is,
- 13:38think about if we can identify
- 13:40tumor specific antigens.
- 13:42We can think about is to use to developers.
- 13:46So actually this probably more ideal
- 13:48because you will be able to induce.
- 13:51Kilmer space saving other immunity.
- 13:52So we had done some working in this area
- 13:56so I will show you what we have found.
- 13:59OK, this is just the introductory
- 14:02slide you know for what we are.
- 14:05You know, you know,
- 14:06for this audience you probably
- 14:09all very well now what you know,
- 14:11the started for email.
- 14:13Check it.
- 14:14Check Point inhibitor therapy for
- 14:16example is really blocking these two
- 14:19inhibitory molecules PD L1 and the CD L4,
- 14:21so those are inhibitory.
- 14:23So basically with the variables develop
- 14:25all kinds of Therapeutics called
- 14:28checkpoint inhibitors is blocking those two.
- 14:30Inhibitory pathways under treated
- 14:33as a way to activate the T cells.
- 14:37So for liver cancer, as you know,
- 14:39at least right now I mean this.
- 14:42You know the update is I say
- 14:44this is updated today.
- 14:45Maybe it will be changed.
- 14:47You know very soon as well,
- 14:49because for right now we have
- 14:50at least three FDA approved.
- 14:52The trackpoint inhibitor is when
- 14:54the pipe and temporal needle and
- 14:56the other one is against the
- 14:57CTLA is I believe mad.
- 14:59So those are three FDA approved and
- 15:01certainly there are many in the pipeline.
- 15:03You see how busy this lies is,
- 15:06you know you see those.
- 15:07Those are the current.
- 15:09In Eagle trials registered away is,
- 15:11you know, a clinical trial data.
- 15:14And those are the space three trials
- 15:17with all kinds of transforming hitters,
- 15:20so you will notice is the most of
- 15:22the trials actually is looking
- 15:25at the combination therapy,
- 15:27particularly with tyrosine
- 15:28kinase inhibitor also entity.
- 15:30EG Eiffel you hitters as well as
- 15:33the combined with some, you know,
- 15:35a local regional therapy or
- 15:36surgical resection so you can
- 15:38see the estimated releasing date.
- 15:40You know complete, complete,
- 15:41complete completion date.
- 15:42It will be in the next year or two.
- 15:45We're going to see a lot about you
- 15:48know the you know the results you know
- 15:51related to checkpoint inhibitors for HTC,
- 15:53so this is really you know the
- 15:55exciting part of you know for
- 15:58the in this field right now.
- 16:00So now let me try to talk about a
- 16:03little bit more like other approach
- 16:05which is active investigation by
- 16:08quite a number of groups in the world.
- 16:11So which is really adopted cell transfer,
- 16:14you know, therapy.
- 16:15So for those you know this concept
- 16:18was in the really knew.
- 16:19So the first tumor,
- 16:21infiltrating lymphocytes, are paid.
- 16:22As you may know,
- 16:24it was divided decades ago by
- 16:26Rosenberg at NCI.
- 16:27So in that case you know he isolated tail.
- 16:31Infiltrating lymphocytes for isolated
- 16:33fuel from Melanoma patients and
- 16:35reinfused ourselves back to the patient.
- 16:37But now over particular,
- 16:39over the past few years,
- 16:41more and more evidence point of the
- 16:44really efficacy of this sort of therapy,
- 16:47and also most recently you can actually,
- 16:50you know culture.
- 16:52Certain cells in X-ray invaluable in
- 16:54Mitchell and stimulative certainty cells,
- 16:56and to induce so-called settle
- 16:58toxic T cells and then refilled.
- 17:01So cells back to cancer patients.
- 17:04And another is really the
- 17:06innate immune response arm,
- 17:07which is in case else,
- 17:09you know by definition in case else
- 17:12it's the main biological function
- 17:14is really as a surveillance.
- 17:16Places Seville's role in the
- 17:18party at that will check out
- 17:20all the auto kill tumor cells.
- 17:23So there are a lot of attention
- 17:25on empty cells as well,
- 17:27so I will share a little bit of data we
- 17:30have written that down within himself
- 17:32and of course the excitement coming
- 17:35from the engineer T cells which is party.
- 17:38So those are we'll just talk back so.
- 17:41So let's first to look at it.
- 17:44This how we can induce more.
- 17:46After specific immunity.
- 17:47Alright,
- 17:48so in this case you know
- 17:50you probably won't find out.
- 17:52Is there any tumor antigen or is
- 17:54there any specific tumor energy
- 17:56you had asserted carcinoma?
- 17:58So indeed,
- 17:58you know over the years we know
- 18:01Alpha fetal protein is one of the
- 18:03first tumor antigen associated
- 18:05with hypothesize are carcinoma.
- 18:07However with multiple different
- 18:08groups of trying to use Alpha
- 18:10Fetoprotein for email therapy,
- 18:12the results are really mcleese mixed
- 18:14because maybe the Alpha fetal protein is.
- 18:17Really highly expressed in embryo
- 18:19Genesis and also in some other
- 18:21highly proliferating cells,
- 18:23so it's great it louder challenge
- 18:26so this slide show that you over
- 18:29the years and actually for hyper
- 18:31disorder carcinoma.
- 18:33Fortunately we do with you know
- 18:35we did find a variable to render
- 18:38gene called glide different three.
- 18:41You can see this is likely country
- 18:44expression.
- 18:44You know fairly specifically
- 18:46specifically expressing.
- 18:47Carcinoma So what is great because
- 18:50way so this clapping series X you know
- 18:53it's you know it's an X chromosome,
- 18:57so it's highly expressed in the Amber
- 19:00Genesis and stuff you know in adult
- 19:03issue and then re over express in more
- 19:06than 90% of hypothesized personal.
- 19:08So unfortunately we really do
- 19:11not understand the role of the
- 19:13life agents rate at the moment.
- 19:15I mean I had two graduate student
- 19:18had dedicated their season.
- 19:19Trying to figure out what is the
- 19:22biological role of glycogen 3.
- 19:24After disappointing,
- 19:25you know we have say it looks like
- 19:28the gladness re somehow interact with
- 19:31other growth factor and to create a
- 19:33micro environment on the cell surface
- 19:36and it would direct the downstream
- 19:38safely to regular cell growth.
- 19:40Interestingly enough gladly constraint.
- 19:42And now there is a general like a genetic
- 19:45syndrome which is a Simpson Globby,
- 19:47you know a Homer syndrome.
- 19:50I have never seen temptation like
- 19:52this is only rated from textbook,
- 19:54so this is a syndrome actually.
- 19:56Is that loss of function of by pigments
- 19:59rate so you can see it in overall if
- 20:02you look at the syndrome is it looks
- 20:05like deletions of glycogen straight
- 20:07create some sort of overgrowth.
- 20:09Alright,
- 20:10so this you know that it has been
- 20:13confirmed in the now customize.
- 20:15Look at this.
- 20:16Now customize the embryo is just
- 20:18the much larger than the white type
- 20:20so this is almost the antithesis
- 20:23for us to think about.
- 20:25If it's a delight,
- 20:26beacon three can somehow as you
- 20:28know looks like tumor antigen mold,
- 20:31cancer formation but somehow during
- 20:33development is actually typing.
- 20:34Three seems to act as surprising
- 20:36function and to check the development.
- 20:39You know during the.
- 20:40And then if you look at it,
- 20:42overall expression pad network IP gains
- 20:44rate there, it's really you know,
- 20:46three major organs expressed,
- 20:48blindness Ray and organize.
- 20:49Well,
- 20:49I you know the highest one
- 20:51actually is a play center, right?
- 20:53So the play center has highest
- 20:55expression of the clapping.
- 20:57Answer it,
- 20:57but that's why I think that just last
- 21:00month I went to see and Harvey Doctor Harvey,
- 21:03Claimant,
- 21:03who is really the leading expert in press
- 21:06enter here at you and I talked with him.
- 21:09So I said, You know?
- 21:11Let's figure out what is it.
- 21:13Skype,
- 21:13even serious role in place and are right.
- 21:16I know what the other organisms,
- 21:19fatal liver you see.
- 21:20This looks pretty express
- 21:22and then also fatal lock.
- 21:24And then I add other tissue.
- 21:26Long is completely zero expression.
- 21:28I thought you know like make
- 21:30sure they were tissue.
- 21:31Now normally they do not express flight
- 21:34PS3 but however is expressed in.
- 21:37Is the you know the email,
- 21:39his chemistry, you see all the you know,
- 21:41the cancer cells expressed those things.
- 21:44You know the proteins on the cell
- 21:46membrane and actually this is one
- 21:48of the market you know in full
- 21:50pathologist will liver pathology.
- 21:52Sometimes when we question
- 21:53about whether this is cancer or
- 21:55not, we tend to do email history,
- 21:58chemistry to confirm, you know,
- 21:59to help us to make a diagnosis of hypothesis,
- 22:02elder personal. Alright,
- 22:04so this is also we checked with all
- 22:07the different cancer cell lines,
- 22:10tissues and both at mouse and human.
- 22:13So Interestingly, the mouse,
- 22:14iPad or cellular carcinoma does not express.
- 22:17Could I pick three and only in the
- 22:19humans of different cell lines we
- 22:22have checked and the overexpressed
- 22:24clapping in the normal hypothesize.
- 22:27But does not express,
- 22:28so this is a because of the mouse
- 22:32had a salad or carcinoma does not
- 22:35express quite happy constraint.
- 22:37Actually created item vantage for us to
- 22:41create some model to study this date.
- 22:44Potential human or therapy.
- 22:45Because when we talk about it,
- 22:47we want to do emails Arabic.
- 22:50You know we have to create a model and
- 22:53see how we can test some of our ideas.
- 22:56So this is just the last, you know,
- 22:59sort of a last slide of Truth demonstrated
- 23:02the collective Pickens Research,
- 23:04you know, expression and its role in,
- 23:07you know.
- 23:07You can see it so here is, you know,
- 23:11almost exclusively expressed in HTC and
- 23:13the same time you can see it is correlation.
- 23:17It seems to be correlated with
- 23:20worst personalities.
- 23:21So now,
- 23:22as I mentioned,
- 23:23that has turned to see how we built
- 23:25this model because we have over
- 23:27the years and longer we built this
- 23:30model which is the Bob semis totally
- 23:32immune are committed and then we
- 23:34have this person normal cell like
- 23:36original derived from optimise.
- 23:38So as I mentioned earlier so this cell
- 23:41line does not express any guy picking three.
- 23:44So what we did is to overexpress human
- 23:46like Bacon three in the mouse outline
- 23:49and then inoculate through this minus.
- 23:51And it will see you know whether
- 23:54we can have a model to test the,
- 23:56you know anti tumor immunity.
- 23:58So this is,
- 23:59you know just a slide to show you here.
- 24:03For example whenever you introduce this
- 24:05cell line to the opposite minus you see.
- 24:08This is why type spleen and then
- 24:10this is the tumor. Very mouse split.
- 24:13This is a bother significantly
- 24:15large sometimes you know obvious
- 24:17between 3 to 5 four,
- 24:18so the indicating indeed the
- 24:20Bobbsey might will see this.
- 24:22Far into Hypersolar Carcinoma
- 24:23ISO for in the summer.
- 24:25Hawk trying to Mount immune response,
- 24:27but at the end the tumor wins because
- 24:30within two or three weeks there is.
- 24:33You know, big tumor produce.
- 24:34Either,
- 24:35you know when we do the subq injection
- 24:37or we do the also topically rejection,
- 24:40you can quickly develop this HTC in the
- 24:43box emails and then we look at the worst.
- 24:46The cells in the privacy you know.
- 24:49Certainly we have all the different type of.
- 24:52Salsa peace out most of the T cells,
- 24:55but actually if you will be
- 24:57further phenotype of those cells,
- 24:59most of those actually there is
- 25:01significant regulatory T cell
- 25:02components and also MD SC components,
- 25:05so indicating so in this box model.
- 25:07Indeed there is email,
- 25:09surprised phenotype and so that's
- 25:11why the tumor wins and two produces.
- 25:13So we think this probably is very
- 25:16good model for us to look how we
- 25:19can develop a model to test some
- 25:21of the ideas we wanted to detach.
- 25:24'cause I'm wiser, circular.
- 25:25I've seen the others.
- 25:27We want to also think about how
- 25:30to manipulate manipulate the
- 25:32different immune system and to check
- 25:34to see if we can have some more
- 25:37effective and the tumor immunity.
- 25:39So first you know, as I mentioned,
- 25:42the clapping and straight,
- 25:44you know this highly expressed tumors.
- 25:46It'll specific energy.
- 25:47So when we did that,
- 25:49go in the traditional method that you say,
- 25:52OK, we will just be recreated.
- 25:54Called in and trying to you know,
- 25:57you know,
- 25:58build recombinant protein both
- 25:59in front bacterial from the East,
- 26:01and then use the protein.
- 26:03As you know energy and to email those
- 26:06mice so this data show you just show
- 26:09you after we immunize those mice,
- 26:12and then we check,
- 26:13you know,
- 26:14we did not really see any significant
- 26:16changes into in terms of humor
- 26:19side before and after vaccination,
- 26:21and then we check the cellular immunity
- 26:23and humoral immunity and overall.
- 26:25Conclusion from that is we
- 26:27tried multiple times.
- 26:28If we just inject eclectic and straight
- 26:29to the mice with another really created any,
- 26:32I need two more community in this,
- 26:34at least in this mouse model.
- 26:36And then we say, you know, you know.
- 26:39Then we check the tumor within
- 26:41our really see any you know,
- 26:43tumor infiltrating emphasize as well.
- 26:45So then we just tested this
- 26:47idea to see how about.
- 26:49You know,
- 26:50we think that different approach.
- 26:51So why I'm proud that we feel is maybe
- 26:54we should think about how to allow the
- 26:57light beacon St guide to the real,
- 26:59you know the immune organs in case like go
- 27:02to the split or go through the lymph node.
- 27:05So one idea we did try,
- 27:08you know at that time sort of
- 27:10thought about it is you know,
- 27:12how about we conjugate?
- 27:13Collecting three with lymphocytes so using
- 27:16this chemical I do not try to pronounce it,
- 27:18you know.
- 27:19CC and uses conjugate.
- 27:21Basically we conjugated the glide Pickens,
- 27:23reporting with lymphocytes.
- 27:24So that hypothesis hypothesis was to use in
- 27:28the table in full size carry this protein,
- 27:31the energy and the lymphocytes has
- 27:33this natural homing capability and
- 27:36they will go to the right email.
- 27:38Oregon.
- 27:38Maybe that will excite, you know,
- 27:41to initiate, and the tumor immunity.
- 27:43So actually that's indeed it was the case.
- 27:46So this is just to show you.
- 27:49You know we conjugated and emphasize with,
- 27:51you know, with the protein,
- 27:53and then we inject, you know,
- 27:55enjoy the back.
- 27:56Those info size you know to the mice,
- 27:59and then we look at the tumor.
- 28:01You fancy the conjugated what
- 28:03so you can efficiently surprise
- 28:04the tumor growth and this will
- 28:06different treatment protocol.
- 28:07You can see it's really time dependent,
- 28:10and so this is very exciting.
- 28:12And then we say, OK,
- 28:13let's check it was, you know all
- 28:15the cells and different components.
- 28:17So this just to show you which acted like.
- 28:21This is an ileus part,
- 28:22definitely compared to the control,
- 28:24you can see a lot of activated T cells.
- 28:27More importantly exciting
- 28:28is after this congregation.
- 28:30Actually we can see the lymphocytes
- 28:32actually infiltrated into the tumor.
- 28:34So this is a boy.
- 28:36We believe.
- 28:36This is probably why we you know this
- 28:39sortable bikes vaccination approach works.
- 28:42So again,
- 28:43this is just another different data.
- 28:45I you know to show you
- 28:47you know how this country,
- 28:49you know that just this is
- 28:51just demonstrated indeed,
- 28:52although the fact that we have seen
- 28:54is related to the conjugation between
- 28:57the lymphocytes and the collective
- 28:59history protein so so for that this
- 29:01is but anyways summarize this data,
- 29:03so we think you know later
- 29:05on we actually purified we.
- 29:07Initially we just use the total invoice size,
- 29:10but now actually we test it's just isolated.
- 29:13These results and it was a tease out,
- 29:16so this is a work is ongoing.
- 29:18So basically is what our working
- 29:20model of our working hypothesis.
- 29:22We want to continue to try.
- 29:25That is we are using T cell
- 29:27as a carrier for tumors,
- 29:29therapeutic vaccine delivery.
- 29:30So this is where we're testing
- 29:32this in hypotheticals.
- 29:33Normal,
- 29:34I think there's a possibility so those
- 29:36can be become a sort of platform 40 sell.
- 29:40You know like you know.
- 29:42So this is a work I'm going
- 29:44to get my laboratory.
- 29:46Now let me you know,
- 29:48share it with you or some of the other
- 29:51things which will also cellular therapy
- 29:53related and this one is the Carty.
- 29:56So we didn't develop find,
- 29:58you know the valuable gladness
- 30:00riccardi cells.
- 30:00So this is just a diagram to
- 30:02show you we use the landing
- 30:05viral vector and then basically
- 30:07created this Jeep 3 car T cells.
- 30:09So right now we created both in the T cell.
- 30:13Sales and also we you know we
- 30:16created this platform using NK
- 30:18cells which I will talk a little
- 30:21bit more in the next few minutes.
- 30:24So those hasn't been shown.
- 30:26You know this is another diagram.
- 30:29Other group also developed this.
- 30:31Party and then they use a different regions.
- 30:34They're focusing on the sea.
- 30:35Turn up the protein and then we
- 30:38decided to focus in on the end
- 30:40terminal because the end terminal
- 30:42is on our side of the cell
- 30:45membrane with believe you know,
- 30:46the in terminal may have better access,
- 30:49so this is our party.
- 30:51Construct and then we.
- 30:52Basically this is also called a third
- 30:55generation that you know a platform.
- 30:57We divided both in the lending
- 30:59virus as well in collaboration with
- 31:01another factor that rockers you know,
- 31:03don't do so.
- 31:04He has a virtual various platform.
- 31:07We actually work together and also
- 31:09make made made this construct in the
- 31:12regional various platform as well.
- 31:14So then you know, testing again,
- 31:16test this party in in Rachel.
- 31:18So it seems to work very well.
- 31:21And also we test it in the animals.
- 31:24You know this just show you a different
- 31:27types of satellites and this is actually
- 31:301545 is immortalized hypothesize,
- 31:32set, immortalized levers, allies,
- 31:33developer in my laboratories of
- 31:36the basis serve as a control.
- 31:38You can see though.
- 31:39Also the target because this
- 31:41tells you know does not have the
- 31:44you know the the 1545 cells does
- 31:46not have a clapping's resort.
- 31:48There's no target and the others
- 31:50you know the commonly used a
- 31:53cellular carcinoma cell address
- 31:54themselves and those type 2 so
- 31:57show significant killing effect.
- 31:58So this is this is in cell culture
- 32:01and then then we also decided to
- 32:04introduce it into into animals.
- 32:06And indeed you know they were treated.
- 32:09Those animals this.
- 32:10Our volume compared to the controls.
- 32:13And at the Cardinal applicants repartee.
- 32:15Indeed, so very effective,
- 32:17very effective,
- 32:18and also lost almost two months.
- 32:20You know, this is really exciting,
- 32:22and I think we pretty much feel
- 32:25very confident in this construct.
- 32:27But now The thing is, you see,
- 32:29you know,
- 32:30certainly eventually will need to bring
- 32:33this to human trial and to see if this this,
- 32:36you know construct will be actually
- 32:38showing the effectiveness in human.
- 32:40So that's certainly you know need a lot.
- 32:43Effort and also some other you know
- 32:46funding and that will get this stuff.
- 32:49So this is a really you know,
- 32:52exciting and also we tested the similar
- 32:54Carty using PDX mouse model because
- 32:56to develop that you know that's
- 32:59another thing I mentioned earlier.
- 33:01We are very happy to share
- 33:03with people you know working on
- 33:05hyper disorder carcinoma also.
- 33:07Edit cancers as well.
- 33:09But we build a multiple PD exercise and
- 33:12over the years not only we have the PDX MI,
- 33:15so we also have the corresponding cell card.
- 33:18Sterilize so you know,
- 33:19for you know for both liver cancer,
- 33:21pancreatic cancer,
- 33:22and we also have other tumors PDX as well.
- 33:25So this is just to give allow
- 33:27us in future to developer mode.
- 33:30You know, you know,
- 33:31I would say precision of personal
- 33:33email therapy because this way
- 33:35we can see if we can derive some.
- 33:37More specific hydrogen,
- 33:39and from this particular patient,
- 33:40and then from that platform to
- 33:43build a specific artifice, patients,
- 33:45certainly, that's what he,
- 33:46what you know in the future.
- 33:48Endeavor for that.
- 33:49Alright, so the last section of my talk,
- 33:52you know it's just one share the lights.
- 33:55Turn attention to the you know
- 33:58another inmate.
- 33:58Email cells which is encased in HTC,
- 34:01so you probably ask why we are
- 34:04so interested in today.
- 34:05So if you look at the.
- 34:08The human body.
- 34:09The organ contains the highest
- 34:10numbers in case ours is a liver.
- 34:13If you look at the liver almost 2%
- 34:15of the Leeward nucleated cells are
- 34:17in case of you probably say it's very,
- 34:20you know, surprised you know.
- 34:22Actually it's you know, but it does.
- 34:24In case I'll do indeed work is very I.
- 34:27I would say to say minimum
- 34:29is poorly understood.
- 34:30Alright, so however, over the years,
- 34:32so you see back to even 1990s.
- 34:35So people already shown
- 34:36that if that you tested.
- 34:38In case files from the hypothetic are
- 34:41still like compared to the non tumor cells,
- 34:45they show the empty cells.
- 34:47Had this dysfunctional in terms,
- 34:49they have lice killing effect
- 34:52and this also reached 2013.
- 34:54Another group also reported this,
- 34:56but very few later Richard to really show.
- 35:00It's a strong evidence.
- 35:01Say what is it?
- 35:03The NK cells function in
- 35:04hypo thyroid carcinoma.
- 35:05Alright, so as I mentioned,
- 35:07it's a such a big pop.
- 35:09You know they have more.
- 35:11In case else that many other
- 35:13lymphocytes in the liver.
- 35:14So that question is how we can find
- 35:17that was in his house would do in
- 35:20those are the others, you know.
- 35:22So this is some people also just very reason.
- 35:26You know shredded.
- 35:27They were recently recorded.
- 35:29If you expand the NK cells and then you
- 35:32know you feel so badly in the mouse model,
- 35:36actually expand it out.
- 35:38In case else does precise anti
- 35:40tumor activity in mouse models.
- 35:42So this will be like an invisible experiment.
- 35:46So it's just indicate you know NK cells
- 35:49after expansion they still maintained.
- 35:51Activity I think that's a very
- 35:53critical for us to talk about.
- 35:55You know,
- 35:56if we ever wanted to make in case
- 35:58out to PSR building platform,
- 36:00we have to make sure the expanded
- 36:02engage cells would hire that function.
- 36:05Right, This is, you know,
- 36:06a couple years ago and this is also
- 36:09in collaboration with another faculty.
- 36:11Don't found in rockers,
- 36:12and so we decided.
- 36:14Just let's start, you know,
- 36:16some of the basics of NK cells in HTC.
- 36:19So what the platform we use so is,
- 36:22you know we,
- 36:23you know we had a transplant program there.
- 36:25So we basically for any HTC transplant
- 36:28fever so will get the tumor and then we will,
- 36:31you know,
- 36:32isolate NK cells from the tumor and isolated.
- 36:35You know from the adjacent that you know
- 36:37zone we call the adjacent alone from the,
- 36:40you know,
- 36:41the Beamer tissue and also isolated
- 36:42the NK cells from the non tumor.
- 36:45You know,
- 36:45like you said,
- 36:46Mount tumor distance period I
- 36:48DS 5 centimeter away from the
- 36:50tumor and we isolate all those NK
- 36:52cells and then we expand it.
- 36:54Also in case cells and that's all what
- 36:56we do in the same time we get the blood.
- 36:59You know patients per for blood in case else.
- 37:02And then you know to compare
- 37:04with different orders at least.
- 37:06Oh groups and see what's the function
- 37:08or was the basic plan in case out.
- 37:11So what do you know?
- 37:13After we did that so we did quite
- 37:15a number page and yet you know the
- 37:19most common transplant deliveries,
- 37:20hepatitis C liver and also the other,
- 37:23is alcohol induced cirrhosis?
- 37:24And so that's how we literally focusing
- 37:27on HC deliver an also alcoholic.
- 37:29So with that will do the functional I
- 37:32say and then we did a lot of irony.
- 37:36Take try to see you with any changes in
- 37:39those cells and then later out toward you.
- 37:43Know quantitative PCR to
- 37:45determine certain specific jeans.
- 37:47So this. All right?
- 37:50OK, thought to make a Long story
- 37:53short because the timing so I will
- 37:56not get into the killing I see.
- 37:58So basically what we find is that
- 38:00there are significant difference
- 38:02between all the NK cells we
- 38:04isolated from different liver.
- 38:06So that might be interested enough.
- 38:08It's TV related liver NK cells and
- 38:10the alcohol related liver cancer.
- 38:12They are also different in terms of function.
- 38:15You know they have light
- 38:16skin activity in alcohol,
- 38:18but how interesting they have
- 38:20even higher connectivity.
- 38:21HC way.
- 38:21Which isn't really surprising to us compared,
- 38:24you know.
- 38:24So we that suspension with it artistic
- 38:27and then you got all the data,
- 38:29but we still have sitting on large amount
- 38:32of data is still waiting to be analyzed,
- 38:35but at least right.
- 38:36The moment I can share,
- 38:38you know this really very fairly recently.
- 38:40Just few months ago with that we
- 38:43actually identify the CD 62 L of
- 38:45course share cell or I also liked.
- 38:47So this has been really
- 38:49significantly changed.
- 38:50You know, between all those different.
- 38:52So here the summary.
- 38:53We can see really tabley how
- 38:56for whatever reason in NK cells
- 38:59isolated from HC be related.
- 39:01HTC you know the HC way related
- 39:04HTC you actually have a higher
- 39:06expression of selected and.
- 39:08However in the alcohol related NK
- 39:10so you have lower expression so
- 39:12this will be the hours they put
- 39:15all the guys average as a baseline.
- 39:17So it's really interesting.
- 39:19You know how this dichotomy,
- 39:21which by itself may not be very
- 39:23surprising because the difference
- 39:25is if you look at the Histology
- 39:28between the cancers arising from
- 39:30HCV and the cancers arising from.
- 39:32Alcohol, the big difference is is you know,
- 39:35in the HTV Kaiser or background
- 39:37deliver as well.
- 39:38You always have the inflammatory
- 39:40activity going on.
- 39:41In other words,
- 39:42you have the inflammatory Emilio
- 39:44within those levers,
- 39:45which in alcohol induced liver
- 39:47cancer or liver cirrhosis.
- 39:49You have minimum inflammatory activity.
- 39:50So I think this is sort of
- 39:53a exciting we want.
- 39:54We are thinking about is right now.
- 39:57It's really easy to further
- 39:59and you know exactly what's the
- 40:02actual role of the CD 62.
- 40:04All out selecting the role in this
- 40:06in case sales particularly is,
- 40:08we wanted to see if the inflammatory
- 40:11thing all hepatitis virus itself
- 40:14contribute that to to that is different.
- 40:17So this is our model right now,
- 40:19so this is a working model we
- 40:22are actively pursuing that.
- 40:24As I mentioned,
- 40:25this summarize with all our
- 40:27current data with NK cells.
- 40:29What do you see?
- 40:30The in case are higher expression,
- 40:33what actually they are?
- 40:34Higher higher killing capacity.
- 40:36So those are mainly from the
- 40:38HC way steaming the HTC, right?
- 40:41That's very interesting.
- 40:42And however, in contrast,
- 40:43the alcohol induced the
- 40:45HTC that will lower CD 62.
- 40:47And also lower kidding capacity.
- 40:49So that's really, you know.
- 40:51Allow us to think about if we ever do.
- 40:54You know the next step in the future?
- 40:57If we develop a therapy?
- 40:59Maybe this is where if we understand
- 41:01more about the Rover LCD,
- 41:03you know you know the CD six tool and
- 41:06we potentially can think about is you
- 41:09know how we can turn this CD6 tool.
- 41:12You know, lower expression one and to
- 41:15get together them to be more active against.
- 41:18HTC in the alcohol siding
- 41:20because of all the HC way.
- 41:22However,
- 41:23I don't think for this stimulation
- 41:25by CT62 will be good idea,
- 41:28because if they already have a
- 41:30pretty strong in as you know,
- 41:33HC way you know for this way
- 41:35they already have higher.
- 41:37In case our activity and I was also
- 41:40higher city 6 two expressions as well.
- 41:42So we may have to think about if you know
- 41:45what other strategies for HCA Induces.
- 41:48So this is a working hypothesis.
- 41:50As I mentioned,
- 41:51we need to do more cases and
- 41:54then to see if we can,
- 41:56you know,
- 41:56find something most specific and
- 41:58to treat you know HTC this is
- 42:01the bottom line is I think more
- 42:03and more we see this trend which
- 42:05is the tumor heterogeneity.
- 42:07So we can outline some of the HTC altogether.
- 42:10You know, apparently you know for HTC,
- 42:13you know differently etiology.
- 42:15It seems like to have very different.
- 42:18Biology, so we thinking about it,
- 42:20developing therapeutic strategy,
- 42:22we have to really think about it.
- 42:25Take that into a consideration.
- 42:28But on the Furthermore,
- 42:29I decide you don't mention that
- 42:32those two testing that model
- 42:33will be the movie thing.
- 42:35It might be the HDD itself with
- 42:37somehow engage the NK cells.
- 42:39So this is our current very
- 42:41preliminary is out here.
- 42:43We basically culture the HIV positive
- 42:45because we can grow hepatitis C in
- 42:47those tumor cells and then do code stimulate.
- 42:50We called priming the NK cells.
- 42:52You know,
- 42:52in this case we can just use another.
- 42:55You know the NK cells and
- 42:57testing the targets.
- 42:58But you know, like a 50K562 cell lines,
- 43:02so that sell you can
- 43:04clearly see after coaching.
- 43:06In other words, it's the priming
- 43:08the monkey cells with hepatitis C.
- 43:11Indeed,
- 43:11in deals that you know NK cell functionality.
- 43:15But now the question you know
- 43:17come to the point.
- 43:19I say even you have a strong
- 43:22and creating activity in iPad.
- 43:24HC,
- 43:24they induce Apple cider carcinoma somehow.
- 43:27The HCS, you know, take CC is still prevail.
- 43:30So In other words.
- 43:31So maybe this is by itself is not enough,
- 43:35or maybe because remember
- 43:36what we have so far.
- 43:38Test data is all in the
- 43:40individual isolated condition,
- 43:42so this is really coming to the
- 43:44point that there may be some other
- 43:47immune surprising signal type in the
- 43:49micro environment which even in visual
- 43:51you know the NK cells maintain their.
- 43:54In and out, and as you
- 43:56know anti tumor activity.
- 43:57But however in the.
- 43:59Imil surprising micro environment.
- 44:01Those are simply just cannot function,
- 44:03so that's really tell us you know
- 44:06when we deal with HTC is causing by
- 44:09C virus versus you know like a narco
- 44:12versus the alcohol costs the HTC.
- 44:14We have to think about differently
- 44:17so this is really, you know,
- 44:19just the game with this idea in
- 44:21a long days and we are actively
- 44:24investigated the possibilities.
- 44:25Alright so I think my time
- 44:28is almost up and I think.
- 44:30This will be the summary and I will say
- 44:33you know you can see you know this.
- 44:35From both you know,
- 44:37patients and mice,
- 44:38so there is an email response in HTC.
- 44:40That's good sign.
- 44:41That means that there is engagement between
- 44:44the tumor and then they and ominous.
- 44:46Not in the music thing,
- 44:48so this created opportunity for
- 44:49us to develop an you know,
- 44:52better therapy so that it seems
- 44:54like this email surprising cells
- 44:56are dominant in HD situation and
- 44:58about human patients and also adding
- 45:00models and we demonstrate uniform.
- 45:02Our own study.
- 45:03Also,
- 45:04many other people study also show
- 45:06the tumor explanation of specifically
- 45:08molasar PewDiePie scene and those car
- 45:11T cells in case cells are indeed promising,
- 45:13you know, a therapy.
- 45:15And as you know.
- 45:16Imagine that in the last section
- 45:18of other than in case also we see
- 45:22the differences between the HC way
- 45:24induce the HTC and alcohol induced
- 45:26ACC really tell us we have to think
- 45:29about a personalized email therapy approach.
- 45:32We have to really see if we can
- 45:34separate those cancers with you
- 45:36know what cording to their ideology
- 45:39and then see developper you know
- 45:42more effective therapy accordingly.
- 45:44So now the challenge is, you know
- 45:46there is another easy to get this done,
- 45:49but I think many are really, you know,
- 45:52not just in the confined within.
- 45:54You know liver cancer.
- 45:56Actually you can have this probably
- 45:58multi other cancers as well.
- 46:00I think this is one area we all
- 46:02need to think about how to do this.
- 46:05So certainly biomarker for
- 46:07getting service absolute liking.
- 46:08So even though therapy specially but
- 46:10you know we're making inroads right now.
- 46:13For example. Total tumor.
- 46:14Antigen burden, you know.
- 46:16Like the microsatellite instability is,
- 46:17as you know,
- 46:18has something demonstrate you know as
- 46:20a predictive marker for more fighter
- 46:22effective therapy for check for me.
- 46:25Hey, better so that's the right direction.
- 46:27But we still need to think about more
- 46:30specific file markers for different
- 46:31cancers and see how to get everything.
- 46:34And then obviously we almost no.
- 46:36There will be some sort of
- 46:38tumor resistant coming out,
- 46:39so that's where you know we need
- 46:42to pay attention or be at least
- 46:44consider the possibility of the.
- 46:46That the veloppement of resistance and
- 46:49its potential mechanism that causes high,
- 46:51particularly women,
- 46:52sing about personalized email therapy.
- 46:54We all know that tumor Hitler genetix
- 46:57really does dimension as well,
- 46:59but and the other is is really, you know.
- 47:03There is a very active field right now
- 47:06is a target and you understand you
- 47:08know the new energy income information
- 47:11because that you can induce new
- 47:14energy through radiation therapy.
- 47:16Awesome tumor, like original local
- 47:18regional therapy for hyper disorder,
- 47:20carcinoma injecting chemotherapy,
- 47:21agents of radiation, you know,
- 47:23create a new energy and so those new
- 47:26editions probably will be able to serve
- 47:29as a target for us to develop more.
- 47:33Like the potential 80 factor.
- 47:36You know emails are paid approach OK,
- 47:38so with that I would say you know
- 47:41thanks to people who are working
- 47:43in my life in especially houses MD,
- 47:45PhD student, graduate student ID TS.
- 47:47Who did all this in case our work and
- 47:50Frank and layout with the post office.
- 47:53We did also by tumor vaccine work so
- 47:55have a lot of collaborations tools.
- 47:57Thanks from you know by you know
- 47:59really the priority institution
- 48:01University of Florida and also ruckers
- 48:03University and especially assigned
- 48:05don't phone bill who is actually.
- 48:07That they did not email about,
- 48:09you know shared his eyes,
- 48:11speaks parties with us,
- 48:12and also the regional viral vector
- 48:15system to build better effective
- 48:17party and also my long term
- 48:19collaborator animal clinic in the.
- 48:21Again,
- 48:22you know saying You know the Funding
- 48:25Agency for support our work over
- 48:27the years so I will stop there.
- 48:29and I welcome questions,
- 48:31ideas from the audience. Thank you.
- 48:33Thank you all for your attention.
- 48:37A chain thank you and thank you for a
- 48:39terrific talk as well as you know the
- 48:42work you're doing in this very challenging
- 48:44malignancy and and folks should submit
- 48:47their questions on the chat button.
- 48:49But let me if I may start. Yeah please.
- 48:52You very nicely identify the potential
- 48:55differences in immune response between
- 48:57alcoholic associated legacies as the alcohol
- 49:00associated legacies as opposed to viral,
- 49:02where given the rise in the role
- 49:05of non alcoholic stay out of the
- 49:08tightest Nash in HTC pathogenesis,
- 49:10where do you see that aligning compared
- 49:13to the models you now been studying?
- 49:16Yeah,
- 49:17so
- 49:17my so that's that's a thing.
- 49:20There are two issues here alright.
- 49:22So yes, Nash Associated
- 49:24Hypersolar Carcinoma, you know.
- 49:25But these are epidemiologist study
- 49:27has seen the rising incidence.
- 49:29However, in practice we seem
- 49:31very little of those cases,
- 49:33you know, because you know,
- 49:35I think that's the thing, because you know,
- 49:38we use in the liver transplant as our model.
- 49:41You know, we get those sites
- 49:43where it without that issue.
- 49:45I think this is it common.
- 49:47We just do not have a lot of cases.
- 49:50Actually human tissue cases.
- 49:52I would say HTC arising
- 49:54from the Nash patients.
- 49:55To really it was studied in detail,
- 49:58but there are, but they each center
- 50:01they will have a really a fuel in.
- 50:04The implication is very hard to to do.
- 50:08The study.
- 50:09Second point is you know if
- 50:11you look at it in terms.
- 50:14You look at the Histology so the
- 50:16alcohol related cirrhosis probably
- 50:18will have more resembles to the Nash
- 50:20Associated Cirrhosis or carcinogenesis
- 50:22because they both contributed.
- 50:24For example, how alcohol.
- 50:26Induce enough cirrhosis
- 50:27and apparel carcinoma,
- 50:29probably by messing up the metabolic
- 50:31pathway within the liver, right?
- 50:33So that's the same way you know.
- 50:36Nice related thing.
- 50:37It is basically part of
- 50:39the metabolic syndrome,
- 50:41so I would think if we want to guess,
- 50:45I will assume those probably
- 50:47more or less related to the to
- 50:50the alcohol induced the HTC,
- 50:52which is less information.
- 50:54So that's the key difference if.
- 50:56If we look at that issue,
- 50:58you have very little information
- 51:00in in Nash or alcohol related
- 51:03liver injury or hepatitis C.
- 51:05You always have this.
- 51:07I'm going chronic inflammation.
- 51:08I think that's the key difference.
- 51:11I mean,
- 51:11it was sort of a surprise was
- 51:14may not be a good surprise.
- 51:17Become actually see the NK
- 51:19cells behavior differently
- 51:20in there supposed to groups.
- 51:23Interest rates are we don't know,
- 51:25so you know to complete with complete
- 51:28and know that yeah yeah,
- 51:30so a number of our members of
- 51:32audience of submitting questions.
- 51:34I'll start Marcus bosenberg is
- 51:36asking have you considered making
- 51:38Carty to either hepatitis B virus,
- 51:41hepatitis C virus antigens expressed on the
- 51:43cell surface? So we haven't because the
- 51:46reason we haven't you thought we really
- 51:49worry about that kind of therapy as a
- 51:51matter of fact, if you look at the viral
- 51:54distribution in the liver, we need,
- 51:56you know you have more very expression
- 51:58in the non tumor cells and tumor cells.
- 52:01You know, for example used in the liver.
- 52:04Sample I haven't I disappear if
- 52:06you look at the hepatitis B.
- 52:09But you know, engaging expression in both
- 52:12the tumor tissue Anna noun tumor tissue.
- 52:14You tend to have higher expression.
- 52:17In the non timit liver tissue.
- 52:19So we really worry about it.
- 52:21You know you created this type of a target.
- 52:24You probably wipe out the liver
- 52:26instead of locating the tumor cell.
- 52:28So I don't see those are really
- 52:31again assumption as part of the
- 52:33say that's probably part of the
- 52:35reason we haven't really seen.
- 52:37People reporting are making those
- 52:39hepatitis B or C in a car key yet.
- 52:43Yes,
- 52:43thank you so question from
- 52:45damper chain are the the T cell
- 52:48infiltrating cells in the tumor?
- 52:50Are they different from the T
- 52:52cells in the adjacent hepatitis
- 52:54C infected liver and related
- 52:56to that would be the effect of
- 52:59immune checkpoint therapy on the
- 53:01background liver vis-a-vis the tumor.
- 53:03If they are different.
- 53:06Right, so that's you know,
- 53:07uh, you know greater point,
- 53:09let's see first so you know,
- 53:11for the first part,
- 53:13so we didn't have to really
- 53:15look at the overall generic key.
- 53:17Infiltrating the middle size.
- 53:18So we basically we did not sign the
- 53:21whole T cells compared, you know,
- 53:23the tumor and the non tumor liver.
- 53:25So we really focusing on the NK cells
- 53:28because we decided just focusing
- 53:30on K cells and for different,
- 53:32you know for number reasons
- 53:34I mentioned so we don't know.
- 53:36The total tease out difference between
- 53:39humor and the surrounding labor.
- 53:41In Hep C and also in alcohol cirrhosis.
- 53:45So that's what they II you know.
- 53:48A question is whether or not
- 53:51you know the for this way,
- 53:54the information you know driven
- 53:57T cell weather.
- 53:58You know you will be able to see
- 54:01you know in the inflammatory
- 54:03citing and how those are behave,
- 54:05so we really don't know at this one.
- 54:10Her thank you question from
- 54:12under whose and are asking.
- 54:14Given the differences in tumor cell
- 54:16biology and immune micro environment
- 54:17between HTC of different etiologies,
- 54:20how do you think about modeling these
- 54:22ideologies in animals to more reliably
- 54:24test immunotherapeutic approaches?
- 54:26Yeah, that's a great point, but I
- 54:29think at this moment I don't see we have
- 54:32a good model to test that, particularly.
- 54:35You know if you look at the mouse model.
- 54:38I mean we we. Also created hypothese,
- 54:41transgender demise but we've
- 54:42never been able to recapitulate
- 54:44the similar similar pathogenesis.
- 54:46Yes, if you have hepatitis C,
- 54:48you know like a transgenic mice,
- 54:50but somehow you do not have
- 54:53all the information you would
- 54:54otherwise see in the human model.
- 54:57The reason is when you build a
- 54:59transgenic mice, you basically create
- 55:01this tolerance for the antigen.
- 55:03You know, for example,
- 55:05so that means that the minds of
- 55:08the host will trade that rise.
- 55:10Transgender put in.
- 55:11And as a Nitro, you know,
- 55:13own protein,
- 55:13so we never be able to initiate
- 55:16those kind of inflammatory model.
- 55:18The other model,
- 55:19Israel chemically induced the model.
- 55:21You know,
- 55:22you know to look at the personal Genesis.
- 55:25It's really not the same as all
- 55:27because in that in those cases
- 55:29you have more liver damage rather
- 55:31than actually information driven.
- 55:33So for that question,
- 55:34I don't think you know we have really
- 55:37good model to to look at the email now.
- 55:41Check on inhibitor.
- 55:42So for that matter,
- 55:43alright,
- 55:43so you know the one we divided the
- 55:46Bobbsey Miz will be good to look
- 55:49at the email check only hitter but
- 55:51again in that setting you know.
- 55:53The difference is is we don't.
- 55:55There is no hepatitis infection
- 55:57in that system.
- 55:58We actually trying to get
- 56:00hepatitis C virus windows privacy,
- 56:02HTC and trying to do that,
- 56:04but for some some reason we still cannot.
- 56:07In a, you know,
- 56:09recapitulate the inflammatory response.
- 56:10You know in that, in, in,
- 56:12in, in, the in the system.
- 56:15So again you know like you know just
- 56:18like them, please ask the earlier.
- 56:20So for those you know differences.
- 56:22You know whether you have inflammatory.
- 56:24Changes in HTC of lice inflammatory
- 56:27transition alcohol induced that HTC will
- 56:29be when you use trackpoint in Haverhill.
- 56:31How they behave?
- 56:32We don't know for whatever the reason.
- 56:35If you look at the clinical trial
- 56:37they conducted the network T service
- 56:39out because actually hoping serving
- 56:41as a reviewer when this separated.
- 56:43You know some middle ground.
- 56:45I say can you tell me can
- 56:47you separate this out?
- 56:49Can you say alcohol, HTC patient you know?
- 56:52And also HC? Wait patience when you use.
- 56:54Checkpoint inhibitor,
- 56:55do they behave differently?
- 56:56Out behavior? Say I mean with them.
- 56:59I mean,
- 57:00I guess probably you know the case number.
- 57:02Overall,
- 57:03you know you'll still have a relatively
- 57:05fewer numbers of people with alcohol.
- 57:07HTC I think majority the patient is still
- 57:10is like a HC way or HP way related HTC.
- 57:14I think that's really important
- 57:16because I think that you know.
- 57:18What you got the checkpoint inhibitor
- 57:21should absolutely considered an I in
- 57:23in the sighting of Nitro I will say
- 57:26to you know physiological difference
- 57:28in terms of the path biology,
- 57:30for example whether or not
- 57:32they have the indulgence
- 57:33inflammatory milio or macro
- 57:35environment or not I think that
- 57:37could make this huge difference.
- 57:39I think this is actually one
- 57:42of the area I was saying is.
- 57:45We should have really look at the
- 57:47difference between the two groups
- 57:49for tumors and when we use the
- 57:51checkpoint inhibitor that we can
- 57:52probably learn a lot because one,
- 57:54as I said, almost no information.
- 57:56The others has a lot of information.
- 57:59Yeah I need to see more
- 58:02data on that. Yeah and last question
- 58:05from Jeff Score is DPC three
- 58:07expressed in Cholangio Carcinoma?
- 58:09And what about cells and HTC
- 58:13that show cholangiocarcinoma
- 58:14differentiation? As a feature of
- 58:17HTC. No, it doesn't.
- 58:19You know a guy picking 3 does
- 58:22not express in Columbia Personal.
- 58:25And when you know with the mic style tumor,
- 58:28you know we call it the.
- 58:30You know, the mix type 2 in both.
- 58:32So you have hypercellular
- 58:34at Michelangelo Carcinoma.
- 58:35In that exciting?
- 58:36Yes, some other hypercellular carcinoma
- 58:38can be staying for clapping and
- 58:40three so I have to say that I think
- 58:43this is we haven't done that yet.
- 58:45So this is all this idea
- 58:47to the audience you know.
- 58:48So in the later literature they have
- 58:51demonstrated by email his chemistry
- 58:52they have seen like a certain
- 58:54percentage of prostate cancer.
- 58:56Breast cancer colon cancer also
- 58:58expressed like if we say 10 between
- 59:005 to 10% of those cancers also
- 59:02expressed clapping and three right
- 59:04so those are in the literature.
- 59:06Those really any doctor type
- 59:08of report out there.
- 59:09We never look at it ourselves,
- 59:11but for some of you know anybody you know.
- 59:14You know if you are interested in that,
- 59:17it may be you know you can
- 59:19look into some of those.
- 59:21I mean, it's not surprising that guy
- 59:23pick once we also exploiting some tumors.
- 59:26Because this is just one of those,
- 59:29you know.
- 59:30Amber Amber,
- 59:31Genesis type of property got re
- 59:34express and in the in cancer.
- 59:37So just through this information
- 59:39out there. Thank you, that was really a
- 59:41superb talk and we're so fortunate now
- 59:43to have you as a member of our cancer.
- 59:46Centers are welcome and we look forward.