title: Transduction of hematopoietic stem cells in humans and in nonhuman primates.
abstract: Primitive hematopoietic progenitor and stem cells have been pursued as highly desirable targets for genetic therapy. Retroviral vectors have been used for the majority of preclinical and clinical studies directed at these cells; however, both preclinical and early clinical studies indicate that the gene transfer efficiency of the current generation of vectors using known transduction conditions into primate and human repopulating stem cells is too low to be of clinical utility in most situations. In this presentation I will summarize the status of our completed and ongoing clinical genetic marking trials, and describe our efforts in the laboratory and use of primate transplantation models to improve on these results.
authors.affiliation: Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Dunbar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tisdale
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Soma
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zujewski
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bodine
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sellers
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cowan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Donahue
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Emmons
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells; D006801:Humans; D011323:Primates; D012190:Retroviridae