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Dr. Zachary D Crees, M.D.

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Washington University School of Medicine

Studies Multiple Myeloma
Studies Hemangioblastoma
8 reported clinical trials
15 drugs studied

Area of expertise

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Multiple Myeloma

Zachary D Crees, M.D. has run 4 trials for Multiple Myeloma.

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Hemangioblastoma

Zachary D Crees, M.D. has run 1 trial for Hemangioblastoma. Some of their research focus areas include:

Sβ0 genotype positive
hemoglobin SS positive

Affiliated Hospitals

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Washington University School Of Medicine

Clinical Trials Zachary D Crees, M.D. is currently running

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CAR-T Therapy

for Multiple Myeloma

Despite recent therapeutic advances, multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable disease. Although survival has improved, there are nevertheless diminishing durations of response to each subsequent line of therapy. This highlights the need for further therapeutic innovation. BCMA-targeting CAR-T cells show impressive response rates; however, their median duration of response is disappointing. The investigators propose that CS1(SLAMF7)-targeting CAR-T cells will fill a gap in the MM armamentarium. CS1 is an attractive target in MM because it is expressed in most patients. Elotuzumab (Empliciti®), an approved anti-CS1 antibody, has proven the clinical efficacy of this target. CAR-T cells are an ideal modality to target CS1, given that two approved treatments, ide-cel (idecabtagene vicleucel, AbecmaTM) and cilta-cel (ciltacabtagene autoleucel, Carvykti™), have proven the potential for cellular immunotherapy in MM. The investigators are testing the safety and preliminary anti-myeloma efficacy of WS-CART-CS1, a CAR-T cell therapy targeting CS1.

Recruiting

1 award

Phase 1

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Ruxolitinib

for Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prevention

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is one of the only curative intent therapies available for hematologic malignancies. HLA-matched sibling donors have historically offered the best clinical results but are unavailable for the majority of patients, while most patients do have readily available haploidentical donors. One of the risks of a haploidentical HCT is graft vs. host disease (GVHD), but it is difficult to reduce the incidence of GVHD without compromising the graft vs. leukemia (GVL) effect. The hypothesis of this study is that JAK inhibition with and without CTLA-4 Ig with haploidentical HCT may mitigate GVHD and cytokine release syndrome while retaining the GVL effect and improving engraftment.

Recruiting

1 award

Phase 1

More about Zachary D Crees, M.D.

Clinical Trial Related

1 year of experience running clinical trials · Led 8 trials as a Principal Investigator · 3 Active Clinical Trials

Treatments Zachary D Crees, M.D. has experience with

  • Motixafortide
  • Leukapheresis
  • Natalizumab
  • Flotetuzumab
  • MGD006
  • Donor Lymphocyte Infusion

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