US Patent 11272695 Genetically modified non-human animal with human or chimeric PD-1

The present disclosure relates to genetically modified non-human animals that express a human or chimeric (e.g., humanized) programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), and methods of use thereof. In one aspect, the animals have an insertion of a sequence encoding a human or humanized programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) at an endogenous PD-1 gene locus. This animal model can express a PD-1 protein containing a functional domain of the human PD-1 protein, and can be used as an animal model for developing therapeutics for human diseases and disorders, and assessing the toxicity and/or the efficacy of these human therapeutics.