{"656179":{"#nid":"656179","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Levine Contributes to Statement from the ISCT Committee on the Ethics of Cell and Gene Therapy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT) Committee on the Ethics of Cell and Gene Therapy released a \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1465324922000251\u0022\u003Estatement\u003C\/a\u003E in February expressing concerns on aspects of a report published in \u003Cem\u003ECytotherapy\u003C\/em\u003E. The original \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1465324921007519\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E, titled \u0026ldquo;Manufacturing chimeric antigen receptor T cells from cryopreserved peripheral blood cells: Time for a collect-and-freeze model?\u0026rdquo; raised concerns in regard to its stance on cell banking, as well as the article\u0026rsquo;s source of funding. Cell banking is the process of storing cells for future use, in this case for cell therapies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/aaron-levine\u0022\u003EAaron Levine\u003C\/a\u003E, associate dean for research and outreach in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and associate professor in the School of Public Policy, is a member of the ISCT committee and contributed to the statement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full statement, \u0026ldquo;The peril of the promise of speculative cell banking: Statement from the ISCT Committee on the Ethics of Cell and Gene Therapy,\u0026rdquo; was also published in \u003Cem\u003ECytotherapy\u003C\/em\u003E. It can be read at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcyt.2022.01.007\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcyt.2022.01.007\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe statement, published in \u0026quot;Cytotherapy,\u0026quot; raised concerns as to the ethics of cell banking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The statement, published in \u0022Cytotherapy,\u0022 raised concerns as to the ethics of cell banking."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-03-09 19:34:58","changed_gmt":"2022-03-09 19:35:30","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648860":{"id":"648860","type":"image","title":"Aaron Levine, Ivan Allen College ","body":null,"created":"1626698851","gmt_created":"2021-07-19 12:47:31","changed":"1626698881","gmt_changed":"2021-07-19 12:48:01","alt":"Aaron Levine ","file":{"fid":"246313","name":"Aaron Levine.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Aaron%20Levine.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Aaron%20Levine.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13000,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Aaron%20Levine.jpeg?itok=o5q6SFMO"}}},"media_ids":["648860"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1496","name":"Ethics"},{"id":"9534","name":"cell therapy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}