1.Doxorubicin-conjugated siRNA lipid nanoparticles for combination cancer therapy.
Kamila BUTOWSKA ; Xuexiang HAN ; Ningqiang GONG ; Rakan EL-MAYTA ; Rebecca M HALEY ; Lulu XUE ; Wenqun ZHONG ; Wei GUO ; Karin WANG ; Michael J MITCHELL
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2023;13(4):1429-1437
Evasion of apoptosis is a hallmark of cancer, attributed in part to overexpression of the anti-apoptotic protein B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2). In a variety of cancer types, including lymphoma, Bcl-2 is overexpressed. Therapeutic targeting of Bcl-2 has demonstrated efficacy in the clinic and is the subject of extensive clinical testing in combination with chemotherapy. Therefore, the development of co-delivery systems for Bcl-2 targeting agents, such as small interfering RNA (siRNA), and chemotherapeutics, such as doxorubicin (DOX), holds promise for enabling combination cancer therapies. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are a clinically advanced nucleic acid delivery system with a compact structure suitable for siRNA encapsulation and delivery. Inspired by ongoing clinical trials of albumin-hitchhiking doxorubicin prodrugs, here we developed a DOX-siRNA co-delivery strategy via conjugation of doxorubicin to the surface of siRNA-loaded LNPs. Our optimized LNPs enabled potent knockdown of Bcl-2 and efficient delivery of DOX into the nucleus of Burkitts' lymphoma (Raji) cells, leading to effective inhibition of tumor growth in a mouse model of lymphoma. Based on these results, our LNPs may provide a platform for the co-delivery of various nucleic acids and DOX for the development of new combination cancer therapies.
2.International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR): 2017–2024 Status and Progress Update
Désirée LARENAS-LINNEMANN ; Chin Kook RHEE ; Alan ALTRAJA ; John BUSBY ; Trung N. TRAN ; Eileen WANG ; Todor A. POPOV ; Patrick D. MITCHELL ; Paul E. PFEFFER ; Roy Alton PLEASANTS ; Rohit KATIAL ; Mariko Siyue KOH ; Arnaud BOURDIN ; Florence SCHLEICH ; Jorge MÁSPERO ; Mark HEW ; Matthew J. PETERS ; David J. JACKSON ; George C. CHRISTOFF ; Luis PEREZ-DE-LLANO ; Ivan CHERREZ- OJEDA ; João A. FONSECA ; Richard W. COSTELLO ; Carlos A. TORRES-DUQUE ; Piotr KUNA ; Andrew N. MENZIES-GOW ; Neda STJEPANOVIC ; Peter G. GIBSON ; Paulo Márcio PITREZ ; Celine BERGERON ; Celeste M. PORSBJERG ; Camille TAILLÉ ; Christian TAUBE ; Nikolaos G. PAPADOPOULOS ; Andriana I. PAPAIOANNOU ; Sundeep SALVI ; Giorgio Walter CANONICA ; Enrico HEFFLER ; Takashi IWANAGA ; Mona S. AL-AHMAD ; Sverre LEHMANN ; Riyad AL-LEHEBI ; Borja G. COSIO ; Diahn-Warng PERNG ; Bassam MAHBOUB ; Liam G. HEANEY ; Pujan H. PATEL ; Njira LUGOGO ; Michael E. WECHSLER ; Lakmini BULATHSINHALA ; Victoria CARTER ; Kirsty FLETTON ; David L. NEIL ; Ghislaine SCELO ; David B. PRICE
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2025;88(2):193-215
The International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) was established in 2017 to advance the understanding of severe asthma and its management, thereby improving patient care worldwide. As the first global registry for adults with severe asthma, ISAR enabled individual registries to standardize and pool their data, creating a comprehensive, harmonized dataset with sufficient statistical power to address key research questions and knowledge gaps. Today, ISAR is the largest repository of real-world data on severe asthma, curating data on nearly 35,000 patients from 28 countries worldwide, and has become a leading contributor to severe asthma research. Research using ISAR data has provided valuable insights on the characteristics of severe asthma, its burdens and risk factors, real-world treatment effectiveness, and barriers to specialist care, which are collectively informing improved asthma management. Besides changing clinical thinking via research, ISAR aims to advance real-world practice through initiatives that improve registry data quality and severe asthma care. In 2024, ISAR refined essential research variables to enhance data quality and launched a web-based data acquisition and reporting system (QISAR), which integrates data collection with clinical consultations and enables longitudinal data tracking at patient, center, and population levels. Quality improvement priorities include collecting standardized data during consultations and tracking and optimizing patient journeys via QISAR and integrating primary/secondary care pathways to expedite specialist severe asthma management and facilitate clinical trial recruitment. ISAR envisions a future in which timely specialist referral and initiation of biologic therapy can obviate long-term systemic corticosteroid use and enable more patients to achieve remission.
3.International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR): 2017–2024 Status and Progress Update
Désirée LARENAS-LINNEMANN ; Chin Kook RHEE ; Alan ALTRAJA ; John BUSBY ; Trung N. TRAN ; Eileen WANG ; Todor A. POPOV ; Patrick D. MITCHELL ; Paul E. PFEFFER ; Roy Alton PLEASANTS ; Rohit KATIAL ; Mariko Siyue KOH ; Arnaud BOURDIN ; Florence SCHLEICH ; Jorge MÁSPERO ; Mark HEW ; Matthew J. PETERS ; David J. JACKSON ; George C. CHRISTOFF ; Luis PEREZ-DE-LLANO ; Ivan CHERREZ- OJEDA ; João A. FONSECA ; Richard W. COSTELLO ; Carlos A. TORRES-DUQUE ; Piotr KUNA ; Andrew N. MENZIES-GOW ; Neda STJEPANOVIC ; Peter G. GIBSON ; Paulo Márcio PITREZ ; Celine BERGERON ; Celeste M. PORSBJERG ; Camille TAILLÉ ; Christian TAUBE ; Nikolaos G. PAPADOPOULOS ; Andriana I. PAPAIOANNOU ; Sundeep SALVI ; Giorgio Walter CANONICA ; Enrico HEFFLER ; Takashi IWANAGA ; Mona S. AL-AHMAD ; Sverre LEHMANN ; Riyad AL-LEHEBI ; Borja G. COSIO ; Diahn-Warng PERNG ; Bassam MAHBOUB ; Liam G. HEANEY ; Pujan H. PATEL ; Njira LUGOGO ; Michael E. WECHSLER ; Lakmini BULATHSINHALA ; Victoria CARTER ; Kirsty FLETTON ; David L. NEIL ; Ghislaine SCELO ; David B. PRICE
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2025;88(2):193-215
The International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) was established in 2017 to advance the understanding of severe asthma and its management, thereby improving patient care worldwide. As the first global registry for adults with severe asthma, ISAR enabled individual registries to standardize and pool their data, creating a comprehensive, harmonized dataset with sufficient statistical power to address key research questions and knowledge gaps. Today, ISAR is the largest repository of real-world data on severe asthma, curating data on nearly 35,000 patients from 28 countries worldwide, and has become a leading contributor to severe asthma research. Research using ISAR data has provided valuable insights on the characteristics of severe asthma, its burdens and risk factors, real-world treatment effectiveness, and barriers to specialist care, which are collectively informing improved asthma management. Besides changing clinical thinking via research, ISAR aims to advance real-world practice through initiatives that improve registry data quality and severe asthma care. In 2024, ISAR refined essential research variables to enhance data quality and launched a web-based data acquisition and reporting system (QISAR), which integrates data collection with clinical consultations and enables longitudinal data tracking at patient, center, and population levels. Quality improvement priorities include collecting standardized data during consultations and tracking and optimizing patient journeys via QISAR and integrating primary/secondary care pathways to expedite specialist severe asthma management and facilitate clinical trial recruitment. ISAR envisions a future in which timely specialist referral and initiation of biologic therapy can obviate long-term systemic corticosteroid use and enable more patients to achieve remission.
4.International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR): 2017–2024 Status and Progress Update
Désirée LARENAS-LINNEMANN ; Chin Kook RHEE ; Alan ALTRAJA ; John BUSBY ; Trung N. TRAN ; Eileen WANG ; Todor A. POPOV ; Patrick D. MITCHELL ; Paul E. PFEFFER ; Roy Alton PLEASANTS ; Rohit KATIAL ; Mariko Siyue KOH ; Arnaud BOURDIN ; Florence SCHLEICH ; Jorge MÁSPERO ; Mark HEW ; Matthew J. PETERS ; David J. JACKSON ; George C. CHRISTOFF ; Luis PEREZ-DE-LLANO ; Ivan CHERREZ- OJEDA ; João A. FONSECA ; Richard W. COSTELLO ; Carlos A. TORRES-DUQUE ; Piotr KUNA ; Andrew N. MENZIES-GOW ; Neda STJEPANOVIC ; Peter G. GIBSON ; Paulo Márcio PITREZ ; Celine BERGERON ; Celeste M. PORSBJERG ; Camille TAILLÉ ; Christian TAUBE ; Nikolaos G. PAPADOPOULOS ; Andriana I. PAPAIOANNOU ; Sundeep SALVI ; Giorgio Walter CANONICA ; Enrico HEFFLER ; Takashi IWANAGA ; Mona S. AL-AHMAD ; Sverre LEHMANN ; Riyad AL-LEHEBI ; Borja G. COSIO ; Diahn-Warng PERNG ; Bassam MAHBOUB ; Liam G. HEANEY ; Pujan H. PATEL ; Njira LUGOGO ; Michael E. WECHSLER ; Lakmini BULATHSINHALA ; Victoria CARTER ; Kirsty FLETTON ; David L. NEIL ; Ghislaine SCELO ; David B. PRICE
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2025;88(2):193-215
The International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) was established in 2017 to advance the understanding of severe asthma and its management, thereby improving patient care worldwide. As the first global registry for adults with severe asthma, ISAR enabled individual registries to standardize and pool their data, creating a comprehensive, harmonized dataset with sufficient statistical power to address key research questions and knowledge gaps. Today, ISAR is the largest repository of real-world data on severe asthma, curating data on nearly 35,000 patients from 28 countries worldwide, and has become a leading contributor to severe asthma research. Research using ISAR data has provided valuable insights on the characteristics of severe asthma, its burdens and risk factors, real-world treatment effectiveness, and barriers to specialist care, which are collectively informing improved asthma management. Besides changing clinical thinking via research, ISAR aims to advance real-world practice through initiatives that improve registry data quality and severe asthma care. In 2024, ISAR refined essential research variables to enhance data quality and launched a web-based data acquisition and reporting system (QISAR), which integrates data collection with clinical consultations and enables longitudinal data tracking at patient, center, and population levels. Quality improvement priorities include collecting standardized data during consultations and tracking and optimizing patient journeys via QISAR and integrating primary/secondary care pathways to expedite specialist severe asthma management and facilitate clinical trial recruitment. ISAR envisions a future in which timely specialist referral and initiation of biologic therapy can obviate long-term systemic corticosteroid use and enable more patients to achieve remission.
5.International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR): 2017–2024 Status and Progress Update
Désirée LARENAS-LINNEMANN ; Chin Kook RHEE ; Alan ALTRAJA ; John BUSBY ; Trung N. TRAN ; Eileen WANG ; Todor A. POPOV ; Patrick D. MITCHELL ; Paul E. PFEFFER ; Roy Alton PLEASANTS ; Rohit KATIAL ; Mariko Siyue KOH ; Arnaud BOURDIN ; Florence SCHLEICH ; Jorge MÁSPERO ; Mark HEW ; Matthew J. PETERS ; David J. JACKSON ; George C. CHRISTOFF ; Luis PEREZ-DE-LLANO ; Ivan CHERREZ- OJEDA ; João A. FONSECA ; Richard W. COSTELLO ; Carlos A. TORRES-DUQUE ; Piotr KUNA ; Andrew N. MENZIES-GOW ; Neda STJEPANOVIC ; Peter G. GIBSON ; Paulo Márcio PITREZ ; Celine BERGERON ; Celeste M. PORSBJERG ; Camille TAILLÉ ; Christian TAUBE ; Nikolaos G. PAPADOPOULOS ; Andriana I. PAPAIOANNOU ; Sundeep SALVI ; Giorgio Walter CANONICA ; Enrico HEFFLER ; Takashi IWANAGA ; Mona S. AL-AHMAD ; Sverre LEHMANN ; Riyad AL-LEHEBI ; Borja G. COSIO ; Diahn-Warng PERNG ; Bassam MAHBOUB ; Liam G. HEANEY ; Pujan H. PATEL ; Njira LUGOGO ; Michael E. WECHSLER ; Lakmini BULATHSINHALA ; Victoria CARTER ; Kirsty FLETTON ; David L. NEIL ; Ghislaine SCELO ; David B. PRICE
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2025;88(2):193-215
The International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) was established in 2017 to advance the understanding of severe asthma and its management, thereby improving patient care worldwide. As the first global registry for adults with severe asthma, ISAR enabled individual registries to standardize and pool their data, creating a comprehensive, harmonized dataset with sufficient statistical power to address key research questions and knowledge gaps. Today, ISAR is the largest repository of real-world data on severe asthma, curating data on nearly 35,000 patients from 28 countries worldwide, and has become a leading contributor to severe asthma research. Research using ISAR data has provided valuable insights on the characteristics of severe asthma, its burdens and risk factors, real-world treatment effectiveness, and barriers to specialist care, which are collectively informing improved asthma management. Besides changing clinical thinking via research, ISAR aims to advance real-world practice through initiatives that improve registry data quality and severe asthma care. In 2024, ISAR refined essential research variables to enhance data quality and launched a web-based data acquisition and reporting system (QISAR), which integrates data collection with clinical consultations and enables longitudinal data tracking at patient, center, and population levels. Quality improvement priorities include collecting standardized data during consultations and tracking and optimizing patient journeys via QISAR and integrating primary/secondary care pathways to expedite specialist severe asthma management and facilitate clinical trial recruitment. ISAR envisions a future in which timely specialist referral and initiation of biologic therapy can obviate long-term systemic corticosteroid use and enable more patients to achieve remission.
6.International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR): 2017–2024 Status and Progress Update
Désirée LARENAS-LINNEMANN ; Chin Kook RHEE ; Alan ALTRAJA ; John BUSBY ; Trung N. TRAN ; Eileen WANG ; Todor A. POPOV ; Patrick D. MITCHELL ; Paul E. PFEFFER ; Roy Alton PLEASANTS ; Rohit KATIAL ; Mariko Siyue KOH ; Arnaud BOURDIN ; Florence SCHLEICH ; Jorge MÁSPERO ; Mark HEW ; Matthew J. PETERS ; David J. JACKSON ; George C. CHRISTOFF ; Luis PEREZ-DE-LLANO ; Ivan CHERREZ- OJEDA ; João A. FONSECA ; Richard W. COSTELLO ; Carlos A. TORRES-DUQUE ; Piotr KUNA ; Andrew N. MENZIES-GOW ; Neda STJEPANOVIC ; Peter G. GIBSON ; Paulo Márcio PITREZ ; Celine BERGERON ; Celeste M. PORSBJERG ; Camille TAILLÉ ; Christian TAUBE ; Nikolaos G. PAPADOPOULOS ; Andriana I. PAPAIOANNOU ; Sundeep SALVI ; Giorgio Walter CANONICA ; Enrico HEFFLER ; Takashi IWANAGA ; Mona S. AL-AHMAD ; Sverre LEHMANN ; Riyad AL-LEHEBI ; Borja G. COSIO ; Diahn-Warng PERNG ; Bassam MAHBOUB ; Liam G. HEANEY ; Pujan H. PATEL ; Njira LUGOGO ; Michael E. WECHSLER ; Lakmini BULATHSINHALA ; Victoria CARTER ; Kirsty FLETTON ; David L. NEIL ; Ghislaine SCELO ; David B. PRICE
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2025;88(2):193-215
The International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) was established in 2017 to advance the understanding of severe asthma and its management, thereby improving patient care worldwide. As the first global registry for adults with severe asthma, ISAR enabled individual registries to standardize and pool their data, creating a comprehensive, harmonized dataset with sufficient statistical power to address key research questions and knowledge gaps. Today, ISAR is the largest repository of real-world data on severe asthma, curating data on nearly 35,000 patients from 28 countries worldwide, and has become a leading contributor to severe asthma research. Research using ISAR data has provided valuable insights on the characteristics of severe asthma, its burdens and risk factors, real-world treatment effectiveness, and barriers to specialist care, which are collectively informing improved asthma management. Besides changing clinical thinking via research, ISAR aims to advance real-world practice through initiatives that improve registry data quality and severe asthma care. In 2024, ISAR refined essential research variables to enhance data quality and launched a web-based data acquisition and reporting system (QISAR), which integrates data collection with clinical consultations and enables longitudinal data tracking at patient, center, and population levels. Quality improvement priorities include collecting standardized data during consultations and tracking and optimizing patient journeys via QISAR and integrating primary/secondary care pathways to expedite specialist severe asthma management and facilitate clinical trial recruitment. ISAR envisions a future in which timely specialist referral and initiation of biologic therapy can obviate long-term systemic corticosteroid use and enable more patients to achieve remission.