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Assessing the toxicity of bispecific antibodies

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The on-target off-tumour toxicities of T-cell-engaging bispecific antibodies in patients can be captured in intestinal organoids derived from the patients’ biopsied tissue and supplemented with immune cells.

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Fig. 1: Organoid models generated from healthy and malignant intestinal tissues and co-cultured with allogeneic T cells for the study of the on-target off-tumour toxicities of TCBs.

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M.G. receives institutional research funding from Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck KG and Roche, speaker fees from Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck KG, and expert advisory fees from Merck Sharp and Dohme and Roche.

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Buzzetti, M., Gerlinger, M. Assessing the toxicity of bispecific antibodies. Nat. Biomed. Eng (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01163-6

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