ASCO 2023 | The role of SLAMF7-positive, CD8-positive T-cells in therapeutic resistance in kidney cancer

David A. Braun, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, explains how a transitional study used advanced genomic techniques, such as single cell approaches, to uncover the causes of resistance to anti-PD1 therapy. Single cell RNA sequencing analysis from various clinical trial samples showed that slightly exhausted T-cells that expressed markers such as SLAMF7, were strongly linked with therapeutic resistance. This finding needs to be corroborated in other studies and requires functional testing, to uncover if this is a biomarker, predictive factor, or a component that can be modulated. This interview took place at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 Annual Congress in Chicago, IL.

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