Rezvan and colleagues profile the infusion product from individuals with DLBCL treated with CAR T cells and integrate functional profiling by timelapse imaging microscopy and scRNA-seq to identify a signature of migratory CD8⁺ T cells associated with response.

Zeiser and colleagues show that CAR T cell therapy results in upregulation of the TGFβ-activated kinase-1 (TAK1)–NF-κB–p38 MAPK pathway in microglia, causing neurocognitive defects, and find that TAK1 inhibition can reduce immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome.

In this phase 1 trial, Hegde et al. treat 13 individuals with advanced sarcoma with lymphodepletion followed by HER2-specific CAR T cells, which were found to be safe and showed antitumor activity.

Vousden and colleagues discuss the multifactorial role of mitochondrial folate metabolism in cancer and metastasis and reflect on potential therapeutic opportunities.

Puissant and colleagues identify a myeloid-restricted PIK3CG/p110γ–PIK3R5/p101 axis as a therapeutic vulnerability in acute myeloid leukemia and develop a proteolysis-targeting chimera to potently degrade PIK3CG and suppress AML progression.

Rezvan and colleagues profile the infusion product from individuals with DLBCL treated with CAR T cells and integrate functional profiling by timelapse imaging microscopy and scRNA-seq to identify a signature of migratory CD8⁺ T cells associated with response.

Zeiser and colleagues show that CAR T cell therapy results in upregulation of the TGFβ-activated kinase-1 (TAK1)–NF-κB–p38 MAPK pathway in microglia, causing neurocognitive defects, and find that TAK1 inhibition can reduce immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome.

In this phase 1 trial, Hegde et al. treat 13 individuals with advanced sarcoma with lymphodepletion followed by HER2-specific CAR T cells, which were found to be safe and showed antitumor activity.

Merz and colleagues perform single-cell multiomic analysis of mononuclear cells isolated from individuals receiving BCMA-directed CAR T cell therapy for myeloma and show that nonresponders are characterized by an immune-suppressive microenvironment.

Sinha and colleagues present PERCEPTION, a precision oncology computational pipeline that can predict the response and resistance of patients by analyzing single-cell transcriptomic data from their tumor samples.

As quantum technology advances, it holds immense potential to accelerate oncology discovery through enhanced molecular modeling, genomic analysis, medical imaging, and quantum sensing.

Johanna Joyce received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and did postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. She then joined the faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, becoming a tenured member in 2014. She moved to Switzerland in 2016, where she later served as the inaugural executive director of the Agora Cancer Center Lausanne. She is currently a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and a professor at the University of Lausanne.

Gold-standard cancer data management is pivotal to enable precision medicine for European citizens. Achieving this goal relies on key elements: adopting standardized data formats, ensuring robust data privacy, educating professionals about the infrastructure’s benefits and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to transform cancer care.

Drug regulatory agencies in the USA and Europe have mechanisms to provide patients faster access to novel treatments, expecting that follow-up trials will confirm clinically meaningful results. However, some early approvals are subsequently withdrawn. Here we discuss the insights gained from withdrawn accelerated approvals for oncologic agents in the past decade.

Anirban Maitra obtained his medical degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 1996; this was followed by residency and fellowships in pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. From 2002 to 2013, he served as faculty in the departments of pathology and oncology at Johns Hopkins, before being recruited to the MD Anderson Cancer Center as Professor of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology and Scientific Director of the Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research.