(TNS) - Scientists at Bay Area universities, laboratories, biotechnology companies and drug manufacturers are fashioning drug concoctions out of blood plasma, chimpanzee viruses and cells taken from bone marrow in the race to rid the world of COVID-19.

The microbial treasure hunt is not just to find a cure which may not be possible but to control the debilitating health problems caused by the coronavirus.

Major progress has been made this year. The antiviral drug remdesivir, produced in Foster City, has improved recovery times, and the steroid dexamethasone has cut the number of deaths in severely ill patients.

What follows is a list of some of the most promising medications and vaccines with ties to the Bay Area:

Antibodies

and Immunity

Mesenchymal stem cells / UCSF and UC Davis Medical Center:

UCSF Dr. Michael Matthay is leading a study of whether a kind of stem cell found in bone marrow can help critically ill patients with severe respiratory failure, known as ARDS. Matthay hopes the stem cells can help reduce the inflammation associated with some of ARDS' most dire respiratory symptoms, and help patients' lungs recover.

In all, 120 patients are being enrolled at UCSF Medical Center, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and hospitals in Oregon and Texas. He said the trial, which includes a small number of ARDS patients who don't have COVID-19, should have results by summer or fall 2021. So far, 28 patients are enrolled in San Francisco.

Lambda-interferon / Stanford University:

Lambda-interferon is a manufactured version of a naturally occurring protein that had been used to treat hepatitis, and researchers hoped it would help patients in the early stages of COVID-19.

Stanford researchers completed their trial of lambda-interferon and found that it did not boost the immune system response to coronavirus infections.

"That trial did not find any difference in outcomes between the treatment and placebo," said Yvonne Maldonado, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, where 120 patients were enrolled in the trial. "It didn't work."

Antiviral drugs

Remdesivir / Gilead Sciences ( Foster City):

Remdesivir, once conceived as a potential treatment for Ebola, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in October for use on hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Trademarked under the name Veklury, the drug interferes with the process through which the virus replicates itself. It was one of the drugs given to President Trump and has been used regularly in hospitals under what is known as an emergency use authorization.

It was approved after three clinical trials showed hospitalized coronavirus patients who received remdesivir recovered five days faster on average than those who received a placebo. Patients who required oxygen recovered seven days faster, according to the studies.

Gilead now plans to conduct clinical trials to see how remdesivir works on pediatric patients, from newborns to teenagers, with moderate to severe COVID-19 symptoms. Remdesivir is also being studied with steroids and other drugs to see if it works better as part of a medicinal cocktail. An inhalable form of the drug is also being developed.

Favipiravir / Fujifilm Toyama Chemical ( Stanford University):

This antiviral drug, developed in 2014 by a subsidiary of the Japanese film company to treat influenza, is undergoing numerous clinical studies worldwide, including a trial involving 180 patients at Stanford University.

Stanford epidemiologists are testing favipiravir to see if it prevents the coronavirus from replicating in human cells, halts the shedding of the virus and reduces the severity of infection. Unlike remdesivir, it can be administered orally, so it can be used to treat patients early in the disease, before hospitalization is necessary.

The Stanford study has so far enrolled about 90 patients, who are given the drug within 72 hours of when they were first diagnosed with COVID-19. Half of them get a placebo. People can enroll by emailing treatcovid@stanford.edu.

Monoclonal antibodies

REGN-COV2 / Regeneron Pharmaceuticals / Stanford School of Medicine:

The REGN-COV2 cocktail is the same one Trump received, and Stanford is one of dozens of locations nationwide where clinical trials are being held. Two separate trials are under way at Stanford one for hospitalized patients, the other for outpatients. A third trial is about to begin for people who aren't sick but are in contact with carriers of the virus.

Regeneron halted testing on severely ill patients requiring high-flow oxygen or mechanical ventilation after the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board determined that the drug was unlikely to help them.

The drug is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies lab-made clones of the antibodies produced naturally in people who have recovered from COVID-19. The antibodies bind to the virus' spike protein and block the virus' ability to enter cells.

Dr. Aruna Subramanian, professor of infectious diseases at Stanford and lead investigator for the inpatient trial, said the 21 hospitalized patients in the study receive a high dose like Trump, a lower dose or a placebo. Subramanian plans to expand the inpatient trial to 45 patients. The outpatient study has enrolled a little more than 40 of the 60 patients researchers intend to sign up.

"There's enough promising evidence that it helps people early in the infection," Subramanian said. "What we don't know is whether it helps people who are pretty sick but not critically ill."

Bamlanivimab / Eli Lilly / Stanford and UCSF:

Stanford and UCSF are testing the Eli Lilly monoclonal antibodies on outpatients after the pharmaceutical company halted trials on hospitalized COVID-19 patients because of adverse results.

Dr. Andra Blomkalns, chair of emergency medicine at Stanford and the lead in the Eli Lilly outpatient trial, said she is now enrolling older people with comorbidities like heart disease, chronic lung disease, a history of strokes and severe obesity shortly after they test positive.

The hypothesis is that the bamlanivimab monotherapy, which is very similar to the Regeneron monoclonals, might work best early in the infection. Although about 400 patients have been enrolled in the Lilly phase 3 trials nationwide, to date fewer than 10 have been enrolled at Stanford and UCSF.

Matthay, who headed up the Lilly monoclonal study with LY-CoV555 at UCSF, said the cancellation of this inpatient trial was disappointing, but "just because this one did not work, doesn't mean another one won't work for hospitalized patients."

Blomkalns said the testing criteria has been changing. She expects the outpatient trial to open soon to adolescents ages 12 and up to determine whether the drug can be used as a preventive.

Designer monoclonal antibodies / Vir Biotechnology, San Francisco:

Scientists at Vir are studying several types of monoclonal antibodies, including a type engineered to activate T cells, which can search out and destroy cells infected with the coronavirus. A study published in the journal Nature in October found that monoclonals, modified to bind with certain receptors, stimulated T cells and improved the human immune response.

"By observing and learning from our body's powerful natural defenses, we have discovered how to maximize the capacity of antibodies through the amplification of key characteristics that may enable more effective treatments for viral diseases," said Herbert Virgin, the chief scientific officer at Vir and co-author of the study.

A similarly modified monoclonal antibody, leronlimab, is being studied in coronavirus clinical trials by its Washington state drugmaker, CytoDyn, which has developed drugs to treat HIV. The company's chief medical officer is in San Francisco, and the company that does laboratory tests of leronlimab is in San Carlos.

Anti-inflammatory drugs

Colchicine / UCSF ( San Francisco and New York):

The anti-inflammatory drug commonly used to treat gout flare-ups is being studied by scientists at UCSF and New York University. The drug short-circuits inflammation by decreasing the body's production of certain proteins, and researchers hope that it will reduce lung complications and prevent deaths from COVID-19.

Preliminary results from a clinical trial found that "Colchicine can be effective in reducing systemic symptoms of COVID-19 by inhibiting inflammatory biomarkers."

Selinexor / Kaiser Permanente:

Kaiser hospitals in San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento are studying selinexor, an anticancer drug that blocks a key protein in the cellular machinery for DNA processing. Preliminary findings during the trials indicated that low doses of selinexor helped hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19. The drug has both antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, and it's administered orally, according to Kaiser's Dr. Jacek Skarbinski.

Vaccines

VXA-COV2-1 / Vaxart, South San Francisco:

The biotechnology company Vaxart is testing VXA-COV2-1, the only potential vaccine in pill form. It uses the genetic code of the coronavirus to trigger a defensive response in mucous membranes. The hope is that the newly fortified membranes will prevent the virus from entering the body.

"It's the only vaccine (candidate) that activates the first line of defense, which is the mucosa," said Andrei Floroiu, Vaxart's chief executive. He said intravenous vaccines kill the virus after it is inside the body, but this one stops it beforehand.

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imago BioSciences, Inc., (Imago) a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative treatments for myeloid diseases, today announced the expansion of its global Phase 2b clinical study evaluating bomedemstat (IMG-7289) for the treatment of advanced myelofibrosis (MF) into Hong Kong, where the first patient has now been enrolled and dosed at the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital and the University of Hong Kong. Myelofibrosis is a rare bone marrow cancer that interferes with the production of blood cells.

In addition to Hong Kong, the Phase 2b study continues to actively enroll patients in the U.S., U.K., and E.U. The study is in the final stages of completing enrollment and continues to dose patients to evaluate safety, tolerability and efficacy.

Patients with myelofibrosis around the world are still in need of new treatment options, said Hugh Young Rienhoff, Jr. M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Imago BioSciences. We are progressing well with enrollment and are pleased to continue expanding our global Phase 2 study into new geographies like Hong Kong. We are encouraged by the signs of clinical activity and safety of bomedemstat as a treatment alternative for patients who do not benefit from the current standards of care.

Bomedemstat is an inhibitor of lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), an epigenetic regulator critical for self-renewal of malignant myeloid cells and the differentiation of myeloid progenitors. Data presented at the 25th European Hematology Association (EHA) Annual Congress in June demonstrated that the first-in-class LSD1 inhibitor was well tolerated with no dose-limiting toxicities or safety signals. Furthermore, recent data demonstrates the potential of bomedemstat as a monotherapy in intermediate-2 and high-risk patients with myelofibrosis who have become intolerant of, resistant to or are ineligible for a Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitor.

Bomedemstat was recently granted PRIME (PRIority MEdicines) designation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of MF. The EMA reviewed bomedemstat non-clinical and clinical data from the ongoing Phase 2 study. The PRIME initiative was launched by the EMA in 2016 to provide proactive and enhanced support to the developers of promising medicines with the view of accelerating their evaluation to reach patients faster.

About Bomedemstat (IMG-7289)

Bomedemstat is an orally available small molecule discovered and developed by Imago BioSciences that inhibits lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1 or KDM1A), an enzyme shown to be vital in cancer stem/progenitor cells, particularly neoplastic bone marrow cells. In non-clinical studies, bomedemstat demonstrated robust in vivo anti-tumor efficacy across a range of myeloid malignancies as a single agent and in combination with other therapeutic agents. Bomedemstat is an investigational agent currently being evaluated in ongoing clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03136185, NCT04262141, NCT04254978 and NCT04081220).

Bomedemstat has U.S. FDA Orphan Drug and Fast Track Designation for the treatment of myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia, Orphan Drug Designation for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia and PRIME designation by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of MF.

Bomedemstat is being evaluated in two open-label Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of advanced myelofibrosis (MF) and essential thrombocythemia (ET), bone marrow cancers that interfere with the production of blood cells. MF patients who are resistant to a Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitor are eligible for the study of bomedemstat. ET patients who have failed one standard of care treatment are eligible for the bomedemstat ET study.

About Imago BioSciences

Imago BioSciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of hematologic disorders targeting epigenetic enzymes. Imago has developed a series of compounds that inhibit LSD1, an epigenetic enzyme critical for cancer stem cell function and blood cell differentiation. Imago is advancing the clinical development of its first LSD1 inhibitor, bomedemstat, for the treatment of myeloid neoplasms. Imago BioSciences is backed by leading private, corporate, and public investors including Farallon Capital Management, LLC., funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., funds and accounts managed by Blackrock Advisors, LLC., Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Irving Investors, Kingdon Capital Management, a fund managed by Blackstone Life Sciences, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Omega Funds, Amgen Ventures, MRL Ventures Fund, HighLight Capital, Pharmaron, Greenspring Associates and Xeraya Capital. The company is based in South San Francisco, California. To learn more, visit http://www.imagobio.com, http://www.myelofibrosisclinicalstudy.com, http://www.etclinicalstudy.com and follow us on Twitter @ImagoBioRx, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Brilliant news as Keisha announces daughter Aurora is back in remission Photo Keisha Pile-Gray

Amazing news has been announced today (November 30) nine-year-old Aurora Pile-Gray from Westbrook is in remission.

Aurora was diagnosed with stage 4 Burkitts Lymphoma after becoming poorly towards the end of April.

The rare cancer affects blood and bone marrow. Aurora has been undergoing chemotherapy and her family were looking at CAR-T cell therapy and an allogeneic transplant.

Earlier this year, after 4 gruelling cycles of intensive chemo, Aurora had been given the news that she was in remission, however this was short lived.

In October the family were told the cancer had in fact spread to Auroras bones and that the youngster was in need of a bone marrow transplant. The situation was also complicated by Auroras mixed ethnicity, making it that much more difficult to find a match.

Aurora is currently being treated by Royal Marsden Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

But in brilliant news Auroras mum Keisha has today revealed her daughter is now in remission.

Posting to facebook Keisha said: Aurora is officially back in remission!!

Her bone marrow assessments show no cancer cells present, and no cancer cell regeneration on new cells in both the solid and liquid part of her biopsy.

We were aware about the liquid aspirate a week ago, but weve been anxiously waiting for news on the solid part up until today!

The transplant team have also sourced an 11/12 donor match which means that Aurora will have one more round of chemotherapy and will move forward with transplant in January!

We dont know much about her donor other than her stem cells will be coming from a 36 year old female, with 2 children. We arent sure if we are allowed to get in contact before two years but just know, if you read this and its you, or of you know who it could be, we owe our entire life to you and would give you the world.

Days like today make our heart burst with pride and love and just how strong she has been throughout this whole ordeal. We are forever in awe of how she has tackled this journey and we are absolutely overjoyed that things are starting to look up!

Theres still a long way to go, but shes already come this far, we are all so over the moon, and I can barely get my words out, so for now, we are celebrating that out little lion is fighting on.

Matching bone marrow donors is a much more complex process than matching blood type. It relies on matching individual tissue type, and genetic markers that are found on most cells in the body. These markers are used by the immune system as a way to distinguish what cells are supposed to be in the body, and which arent. The markers must be as closely matched as possible between host and guest, to prevent the body rejecting the new bone marrow. Everyones tissue type is inherited, so often bone marrow donations come directly from a donor with the same ethnic background.

Theres a lack of individuals from ethnic minorities on the register, and as a whole only 2% of the entire UK population is currently signed up to become a bone marrow donor despite having a 1 in 800 chance you would be a match for someone.

Keisha added: Auroras in remission but we still have to get her through transplant and theres a 90% chance it could return within a year. Were made up, but still very apprehensive.

This month mum-of-three Keisha and St Saviours pupil Aurora were announced as joint winners, alongside Westgates Wilfred Jenkins, after our call out for Thanet heroes of 2020.

And Keishas latest update here

Find out how to join the bone marrow register:

http://www.anthonynolan.org

http://www.dkms.org

A fundraising page has been set up to help the family in case treatment abroad is needed.

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The mRNA technology used to create the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for COVID is being applied to ... [+] many other medical treatments in addition to vaccines.

While the vaccines for Covid-19 seem to have been created in record time, the technology making them possible has been decades in development. The two vaccine candidates produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are unlike any other vaccine thats come before. Should they achieve commercial success, it could usher in a new era of medical science not just for vaccines, but for cancer treatments, blood disorders, and gene therapy.

The two new vaccines are the first ever to use mRNA, which stands for messenger RNA, to generate immunity. Historically, vaccines have used dead or weakened viruses to imitate an infection, spurring the body to make antibodies against that virus without danger of getting sick. Measles, polio, and some seasonal flu shots are examples of vaccines made with whole virus particles.

Other vaccines use only certain fragments of the virus, called antigens, that provoke an immune response. To make this type of vaccine, the genetic code for the desired viral antigen molecule is put into yeast or bacteria cells. These microbes can be grown rapidly and inexpensively, and they can churn out massive quantities of antigen. Then the molecule must be purified to clinical standards so that its safe to inject into healthy people. Prevnar and Gardasil are examples of this type of vaccine.

These methods work well, but they require enormous research and development efforts. A laboratory could spend years optimizing the methods for producing one virus protein, but those methods wouldnt automatically translate to mass-producing a different protein.

For every new protein, you start over. Its a brand-new procedure every step of the way, explains immunologist Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Weissman is one of the pioneering scientists behind the mRNA vaccine.

The way I see it, the mRNA platform is much better, its much quicker, and its cheaper, says Weissman. Thats the trilogy of what you need to improve vaccines. With mRNA, the steps are the same, no matter what virus the vaccine is targeting. This makes it easily customizable. Once an mRNA manufacturing facility is up and running, it can easily be deployed to make vaccines against any number of viral antigens.

A strand of mRNA carries the instructions for making one protein. Your cells normally make their own mRNA strands and use them as blueprints to manufacture all the proteins your body needs to function.

The vaccine slips a new strand of mRNA into the cell, like an extra page in the blueprint. This mRNA contains the instructions for making the coronavirus spike protein, and the cell reads it the same way it reads its own mRNAs, using it to build the viral protein. The immune system recognizes that protein as foreign, and starts making antibodies against it. Then, if youre exposed to the actual virus, those antibodies will be available to stop the infection. Astonishingly, in animal tests, mRNA vaccines appear to induce immunity that lasts much longer than live virus vaccines.

The beauty of mRNA is that its temporary. Your cells wont keep cranking out spike protein forever. Like an Instagram story, the mRNA fades away after a certain amount of time, because you dont need to keep making coronavirus protein forever in order to maintain the protective immunity.

Another big advantage of mRNA is that its rapidly customizable. Once scientists know the genetic sequence of a viral protein, they can make the mRNA in the lab and package it into a vaccine in a matter of weeks.

Originally envisioned as a way to deliver gene therapy, mRNA had to overcome some serious challenges before arriving at todays big moment. In 2005, Weissman and his colleague, Katalin Karik, solved one of the most difficult problems facing mRNA. In its natural form, the molecule sparks an excessive immune reaction, igniting inflammation that damages the body. To avoid this, they changed the structure of the mRNA just enough to fool the immune sentries.

Similar to DNA, RNA is made up of a series of chemical letters, a kind of code that the cell translates to make a protein. Modifying the chemical structure of one of those letters allowed the information to remain intact, and eliminated the signal that triggered the bodys immune alarms.

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Weissmans lab was working on vaccines for influenza, herpes, and HIV. Those will all be going into phase I clinical trials within the next year, he says. But vaccines are only the beginning of what mRNA can do.

Often in the case of genetic diseases, the problem is that a broken gene fails to produce a protein that the body needs for healthy function. The idea of gene therapy is simple: send in a healthy copy of the broken gene, which the cells can use to make the protein. Most times, researchers use viruses to deliver the gene, but viruses can cause problems of their own. Delivering mRNA to the cell without a virus circumvents some of these issues.

To ferry the mRNA into cells, it is encapsulated in a fatty coating called a lipid nanoparticle (LNP). Weissmans lab has been experimenting with ways to modify the LNP so that it can home in on certain cell types.

In sickle cell disease (SCD), a broken hemoglobin gene prevents blood cells from carrying oxygen ... [+] efficiently, and causes them to take on a rigid, sickle-shaped form.

My lab has figured out how to specifically deliver the LNP to bone marrow stem cells, Weissman says. This could lead to an inexpensive and practical cure for sickle cell anemia. An mRNA molecule can be programmed to encode the beta-hemoglobin gene, which is defective in sickle cell disease. That mRNA would be sent directly to the bone marrow cells using the specially targeted LNPs, enabling the bone marrow to produce healthy red blood cells that contain functioning beta-hemoglobin.

All that would need to be done is to give people a single intravenous injection of the mRNA LNP, and youll cure their sickle cell anemia, Weissman says. By contrast, the current FDA-approved gene-editing therapy for sickle cell requires the patients bone marrow be removed, treated, and then returned to the bodyan expensive and invasive procedure. The mRNA treatment could be simple enough to deliver in lower-income countries, where sickle cell disease impacts the health of millions of people.

An up-and-coming strategy for fighting cancer is a so-called cancer vaccine, which uses immune cells called dendritic cells (DCs). DCs perform surveillance for the immune system. When they detect something that shouldnt be there, whether its a virus, a bacteria, or even a cancer cell, the DCs chew it up, break it into its component molecules, and then show those foreign molecules to the immune cells that make antibodies.

Dendritic cells chew up viruses or other foreign bodies, and present the pieces to other immune ... [+] cells. T cells and B cells both play a role in mounting a long-lasting immunity against the pathogen.

When cancer grows slowly, though, it can slip past the DC surveillance network. To give the immune system a boost, a patients DCs are taken out and artificially loaded with tumor-specific proteins, or antigens. Back inside the body, the cells stimulate the generation of antibodies against the tumor.

Using mRNA to deliver the tumor antigen information to the DCs could provide a way to make this process easier, cheaper, and safer. BioNTech is currently conducting clinical trials on cancer vaccines for triple-negative breast cancer, metastatic melanoma, and HPV-positive head and neck cancers. Called FixVac, the vaccines include multiple tumor antigens that are frequently found across different patients. Early data published in September 2020 showed promise, suggesting that the mRNA therapy generates a lasting immune response, comparable to more expensive methods.

Karik, who is now a senior vice president at BioNTech, and Weissman both speak with an air of inevitability, as if they have only been waiting patiently for the world to catch up with their discovery. The two scientists told their stories recently at the 2nd annual mRNA Day celebration in San Diego, hosted by Trilink BioTechnologies in honor of their recently opened facility there. After hearing the tumultuous history of the technology and seeing promising new data, one attendee asked, what would you say was the turning point for mRNA therapeutics?

Karik responded simply, When people read our [2005] paper. We were waiting for somebody to respond, we did a lot of experiments, but we waited and waited. It was just too early for most people.

Weissman agreed. I think we were early, he said. It finally caught on, and it will hopefully change the world.

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According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is a disease caused when cells from a donated stem cell graft attack the normal tissues of the transplant patient. Symptoms include jaundice, skin rash or blisters, a dry mouth, or dry eyes. GVHD occurs when particular types of white blood cells (T cells) in the donated bone marrow or stem cells attack the host body cells because the donated cells (the graft) see the host cells as foreign and attack them.

GVHDhas two types Acute GVHDand Chronic GvHD. Acute GvHD is also known as fulminant GVHD and occurs usually in the initial 2-3 months after transplantation. Chronic GVHD occurs around 3-4 months after the transplantation has happened, and has more diverse complications. This type affects the liver, stomach, vagina, joints, lungs, gut, mouth and glands secreting mucus or saliva.

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DelveInsights Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) Epidemiology Forecast to 2030 report delivers an in-depth understanding of the disease, historical and forecasted Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) epidemiology in the 7MM, i.e., the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom), and Japan.The DelveInsight Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) epidemiology report gives a thorough understanding of the Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) disease symptoms and causes, along with the risk factors, diagnosis, pathophysiology associated with the disease, and. It also provides treatment algorithms and treatment guidelines for Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) in the US, Europe, and Japan. The report covers the detailed information of the Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) epidemiology scenario in seven major countries (US, EU5, and Japan).

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As per a study by Elgaz S. et al., (2019), GVHDoccurs in 3050% of recipients and 14% of all patients suffer severe GVHDgrades 34. Chronic GVHDaffects 3070% of patients receiving allo-SCT.

As per a study by Jacobsohn and Vogelsang (n.d.) titled Acute graft versus host disease, in the United States, approximately 5,500 patients/year can develop acute GVHD and in 2003, the incidence of grade II-IV acute GVHD was roughly 3550%.

As per Orphanet, about 35%-50% of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients will develop acute Graft versus host disease (GVHD). And about 50% of patients with acute GVHD will eventually have manifestations of chronic GVHD.

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