US Patent 11464800 Methods for manufacturing T cells

The disclosure relates to methods of manufacturing T cells for adoptive immunotherapy. The disclosure further provides for methods of genetically transducing T cells, methods of using T cells, and T cell populations thereof. In an aspect, the disclosure provides for methods of thawing frozen peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), resting the thawed PBMC, activating the T cell in the cultured PBMC with an anti-CD3 antibody and an anti-CD28 antibody immobilized on a solid phase, transducing the activated T cell with a viral vector, expanding the transduced T cell, and obtaining expanded T cells.