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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦

@bllphd.bsky.social
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🧬🧪Professor @Pennmedicine #CellTherapy #Genetherapy #Inventor #Kymriah #CARTCell @TmunityTx & @CapstanTx CoFounder, Past President @ISCTGlobal @PNASNexus AE orcid.org/0000-0001-6971-8465

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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Announcing the website for the song Ring That Bell 🔔 cowritten w @magsmccarthy.bsky.social an emotional story of a cancer patient facing relapse and the fierce advocacy, support, and groundbreaking science that offer new hope. #cancer #cancerresearch #immunotherapy #hope ringthatbellsong.com
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We are actively looking to partner with biotech, pharma, and academic groups If you are advancing a program and need a partner who understands both the science and the realities of clinical translation, we should connect www.med.upenn.edu/cvpf/
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Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) | Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We’ve built an integrated platform designed to move programs from discovery into first-in-human studies with rigor, speed, and quality. What differentiates this model is not a single capability, but the integration: • Manufacturing • Process development • QC analytics and correlative science
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Heading to the @isctglobal.bsky.social l Annual Meeting in Dublin? Come visit us at the Penn Medicine Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production booth 2505 1st Floor The Liffey across from ISCT Hub and meet our Facilities, Analytics, Operations, Regulatory and Manufacturing Experts.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Heading to the @isctglobal.bsky.social l Annual Meeting in Dublin? Come visit us at the Penn Medicine Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production booth 2505 1st Floor The Liffey across from ISCT Hub and meet our Facilities, Analytics, Operations, Regulatory and Manufacturing Experts.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW - Data-informed optimization of CAR T-cell therapy long-term follow-up At >60K patients treated, CAR-T LTFU is due for a reset. AEs are infrequently reported >3 years post-infusion, so 5 years is more appropriate considering low risk, cost burden, burdens on patients jitc.bmj.com/content/14/4...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Join us for the CAR T Scientific Signature Series event May 9 in Dublin @isctglobal.bsky.social Annual Meeting www.isctglobal.org/annual-meeti...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨NEW FDA Draft Guidance Safety Assessment of Genome Editing in Human Gene Therapy Products Using Next-Generation Sequencing #FDA #Regulatory #geneediting #genetherapy Top 5 Takeaways in reply www.fda.gov/regulatory-i...
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Safety Assessment of GE in Human Gene Therapy Products Using NGS
This is the draft guidance for industry, Safety Assessment of Genome Editing in Human Gene Therapy Products Using Next-Generation Sequencing
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Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What the peptide craze reveals about Americans’ relationship with risk. Great piece from @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/04/06/r... It's so odd how many people will not trust proven biomedical approaches but embrace and literally shoot up with unproven things like peptides
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What the peptide craze reveals about Americans’ relationship with risk
Why do RFK Jr. and other health influencers embrace unproven peptides while calling for more research into well-studied vaccines?
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚨Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Carl June & Prof. Dr. Michel Sadelain! 2025 laureates of the Broermann Medical Innovation Award for the development of the CAR-T cell #immunotherapy #cancer #CancerResearch pressreleasehub.pa.media/article/dr-c...
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DR. CARL JUNE AND DR. MICHEL SADELAIN ARE BEING AWARDED THE BROERMANN MEDICAL INNOVATION AWARD 2025
Giessen (ots) - - With prize money of one million euros, it is one of the most highly endowed medical awards in the world
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Is Germline Editing Feasible and Should it be Permissible? I joined @urnov.bsky.social, @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social, ISCT President Miguel Forte & Chief Regulatory Officer Bambi Grilley to discuss #ethics #bioethics & technological hurdles of embryo editing www.isctglobal.org/telegrafthub...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My CNBC.com segment on implications for pediatric vaccine schedule from recent politics. 2003 saw ~5,000 cases of pertusis, in 2024 there were over 35,000, and for 2025, some models show 70,000+ We risk a return of communicable diseases in children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cI...
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E John Wherry @ejohnwherry.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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The Power of Public Investment in Science
YouTube video by Penn Medicine
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚨Just published - Multiplex engineering using microRNA-mediated gene silencing in CAR T cells #celltherapy #genetherapy #immunotherapy www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Announcing the website for the song Ring That Bell 🔔 cowritten w @magsmccarthy.bsky.social an emotional story of a cancer patient facing relapse and the fierce advocacy, support, and groundbreaking science that offer new hope. #cancer #cancerresearch #immunotherapy #hope ringthatbellsong.com
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Nearly two dozen people developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, state health department says (from @reportergoodman.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/h...
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Nearly two dozen people in Florida are ill after drinking raw milk from the same farm | CNN
Nearly two dozen people have developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, according to the state’s Department of Health.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨Coming soon! Multiplex engineering using microRNA-mediated gene silencing in CAR T cells. In a single lentiviral vector- multiplex silencing & expression of a CAR, better expansion & viability than gene editing by electroporation www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
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Frontiers | Multiplex engineering using microRNA-mediated gene silencing in CAR T cells
Multiplex gene edited CAR T cell therapies face challenges, including potential oncogenic risks from double-strand breaks. Targeted microRNAs (miRNAs) may of...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
More disease coming, unfortunately in kids. Adults making the bad decisions for them.
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Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My new 2-minute 5-point short on why one shouldn't go to stem cell clinics or at least seriously weigh risks + low chance of benefit. Good little video for scientists and physicians too looking for clear explanation when people ask #stemcells #stemcell www.youtube.com/shorts/EX9iU...
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5 reasons not to go to a stem cell clinic
YouTube video by The Stem Cell Channel from The Niche
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Cutting NIH to “save” money is fundamentally flawed -Modest annual savings pale compared to multi‑trillion‑dollar health, innovation, and productivity losses www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/n...
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New analysis predicts sprawling effects of proposed NIH budget cuts
Initial analyses of the Trump administration’s proposed NIH cuts neglect key aspects of their long-term economic and health impact, study says.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
From Pink Sheet on continued departures from FDA’s biologics division and challenges backfilling openings. FDA biologics center reported 106 departures from Jan. 1 to June 30. These numbers don’t include the 100-150 who were part of the reduction-in-force insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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US FDA’s Biologics Center Departures Grew Before More Than 100 RIFs Exited
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research saw departures far outnumber new hires in the second and third quarters of FY 2025, before more than 100 people left July 14 after the reduction-in-for...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
FDA’s cancer review team overseeing breast and gynecological products has lost about 1/3 of its medical review staff and the malignant heme group will lose about 2/3 of its medical review staff—all to voluntary resignations clustered among seasoned reviewers insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
There should be a cable channel fact checking all the cable news channels and their paid "pundits" in real time
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
If gifted narrative filmmaker Marwin Gansauge asks, "Can I make a movie about you?", what do you say? More than ever, science communication is desperately needed to convey the importance of research in developing new treatments for patients. Filmed in Vancouver & Dublin youtu.be/YrevpY-DNmw
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Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Is Makary's FDA already heading toward a breaking point? ipscell.com/2025/07/is-m... #stemcells #stemcell #CRISPR what does it mean for the cell and gene therapy field?
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Is Makary's FDA already heading toward a breaking point? - The Niche
Stem cell biologist writes about how Makary's FDA is already in serious trouble due to politics and a lack of experienced staff.
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
How did the pandemic start? I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game. gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
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Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins
Because people keep getting this very wrong.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If real facts matter to you
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Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Sign of the times.
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STAT @statnews.com · 15/07/2025
A well-placed biotech investor says U.S. policies are straining life sciences startups — and more disruption is coming. www.statnews.com/2025/07/15/b...
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A well-placed biotech investor says U.S. policies are straining life sciences startups
A well-placed biotech investor says U.S. policies are straining life sciences startups — and more disruption is coming.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Taxing innovation
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
TFW when UFC is valued > MIT is not AOK
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🧵1/3 How discoveries become cures, in a virtuous cycle @pennmedicine.bsky.social - Public investments in biomedical research have an outsized effect, driving new scientific insights, economic growth, and ultimately treatments and cures. #NIH pennmedicine.org/news/how-dis...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🏋️Training Course! The Use of Cell Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases: CAR-T in #Paris Oct 16-17 #immunotherapy #autoimmune #Tcell #tcellrx @isctglobal.bsky.social www.isctglobal.org/workforce-de...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What vaccine skepticism brings👇
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 09/07/2025
After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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World’s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos - KFF Health News
After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨Worse than you think "World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos" There used to be bipartisan support. Now: -Rat on your colleagues -Silencing the science communicators -A budget to ‘destroy clinical research’ #NCI #NIH #Cancer #cancerresearch www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...
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World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Bioengineered immunocompetent preclinical trial-on-chip tool enables screening of CAR T cell therapy for leukaemia. #Tcell #immunotherapy #organonachip 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01428-2
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Bioengineered immunocompetent preclinical trial-on-chip tool enables screening of CAR T cell therapy for leukaemia - Nature Biomedical Engineering
An ex vivo organotypic and immunocompetent human leukaemia chip system is used for CAR T cell therapy modelling and screening of patient response.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
There is arguably no compelling proposed mechanism of action whereby specific cells could reasonably be expected to be effective, i.e. cord blood for autism
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨Big news for development of in vivo CAR T cells: AbbVie (ABBV) to Acquire Capstan Therapeutics for $2.1 Billion @abbvie @capstantx #TCell #tcellrx #immunotherapy www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+Ne...
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AbbVie (ABBV) to Acquire Capstan Therapeutics for $2.1 Billion
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Capstan Therapeutics, Inc. ("Capstan"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to advancing in vivo engineering of cells through RNA delivery using tLNPs, today...
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Too many people recognize their opinions as feelings, but mistake their beliefs for facts. Closed minds hold truths to be self-evident. Open minds are willing to question even strongly held views. Lifelong learning requires the courage to challenge our own convictions.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Private sector, philanthropy can’t replace science cuts. #NIH #CDC #FDA #Science www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/n... via @statnews.com
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Unbridled individualism at the expense of community safety and #misinformation on vaccines threatens lives www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/v... via @statnews.com
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Balkanization of vaccine policy raises concerns about vaccine uptake, insurance coverage, experts warn
The U.S. may be headed for a “choose your own adventure” approach to vaccine policy, in which skeptical parents follow the guidelines that confirm their beliefs.
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In #Philly, even the floor robots are #Eagles fans
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Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Analysis: FDA shakeup finally gets key leader Nicole Verdun; bros, politics & AI to rule instead of experienced scientists? ipscell.com/2025/06/fda-... RFK Jr. Oz Makary Prasad Bhattacharya are unlikely to be helpful to biotechs in the cell & gene therapy space #crispr #stemcells
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FDA shakeup finally gets Nicole Verdun; bros, politics & AI to rule? - The Niche
Someone at the FDA has placed Nicole Verdun, the Super Director of The Office of Therapeutic Products at the agency, and her deputy, Rachael Anatol, on administrative leave as of yesterday. The agency...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🚨NEW - In vivo CAR T cell generation to treat cancer and autoimmune disease @capstantx.bsky.social direct delivery of mRNA-encoded CARs to CD8+ T cells in mouse & NHP models shows tumor control not only in blood, but also tissue. Immune reset seen at B cell recovery www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In vivo CAR T cell generation to treat cancer and autoimmune disease
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have transformed treatment of B cell malignancies. However, their broader application is limited by complex manufacturing processes and the necessity f...
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Some good news coming this afternoon
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." World War I Soldier, Reginald B. Mansell #QuoteoftheDay h/t Rick Itzkowich🌈
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Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦 @bllphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#bio2025 when #cancer #immunotherapy meets #CountryMusic = Ring That Bell, a song I co-wrote w @magsmccarthy.bsky.social is on the Amazon charts Music video on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=dkOr... / iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/rin... Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/53z1BE...
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