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Dr Tessa Gargett

Adjunct Research Fellow Centre for Cancer Biology

City West Campus (HB9-26)
tel +61 8 830 27816

email Tessa.Gargett@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Immunology
Biological Sciences
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2019	Brown, MP, Ebert, LM & Gargett, T 2019, 'Clinical chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy: a new and promising treatment modality for glioblastoma', Clinical and Translational Immunology, vol. 8, no. 5, article no. e1050, pp. 1-20. Open access 1 1
2019	Gargett, T, Truong, N, Ebert, LM, Yu, W & Brown, MP 2019, 'Optimization of manufacturing conditions for chimeric antigen receptor T cells to favor cells with a central memory phenotype', Cytotherapy, online, pp. 1-10. 1 1
2019	Mencel, J, Gargett, T, Karanth, N, Pokorny, A, Brown, MP & Charakidis, M 2019, 'Thymic hyperplasia following double immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in two patients with stage IV melanoma', Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, online, pp. 1-4.
2019	Zhang, P, Raju, J, Ullah, MA, Au, R, Gargett, T, Brown, MP & Tey, SK 22 total authors 2019, 'Phase I trial of inducible caspase 9 T cells in adult stem cell transplant demonstrates massive clonotypic proliferative potential and long-term persistence of transgenic T cells', Clinical Cancer Research, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1749-1755. 1 1 22
2018	Ebert, LM, Yu, W, Gargett, T & Brown, MP 2018, 'Logic-gated approaches to extend the utility of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell technology', Biochemical Society Transactions, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 391-401. 3 2 6
2018	Gargett, T, Abbas, MN, Rolan, P, Price, JD, Gosling, KM, Ferrante, A, Ruszkiewicz, A, Atmosukarto, II, Altin, J, Parish, CR & Brown, MP 2018, 'Phase I trial of Lipovaxin-MM, a novel dendritic cell-targeted liposomal vaccine for malignant melanoma', Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 1461-1472. 5 3 4
2016	Gargett, T, Yu, W, Dotti, G, Yvon, ES, Christo, SN, Hayball, JD, Lewis, ID, Brenner, MK & Brown, MP 2016, 'GD2-specific CAR T cells undergo potent activation and deletion following antigen encounter but can be protected from activation-induced cell death by PD-1 blockade', Molecular Therapy, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1135-1149. Open access 72 70 5
2015	Gargett, T & Brown, MP 2015, 'Different cytokine and stimulation conditions influence the expansion and immune phenotype of third-generation chimeric antigen receptor T cells specific for tumor antigen GD2', Cytotherapy, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 487-495. 38 33 15
2015	Gargett, T, Fraser, CK, Dotti, G, Yvon, ES & Brown, MP 2015, 'BRAF and MEK inhibition variably affect GD2-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell function in vitro', Journal of Immunotherapy, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 12-23. 14 15 1
2014	Gargett, T & Brown, M 2014, 'The inducible caspase-9 suicide gene system as a 'safety switch' to limit on-target, off-tumor toxicities of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells', Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 5, article no. 235, pp. 1-7. Open access 99 85 21
2014	Gargett, T, Bruber-Bauk, B, Garrod, T, Yu, W, Miller, DS, Major, L, Wesselingh, S, Suhrbier, A & Gowans, E 2014, 'Induction of antigen-positive cell death by the expression of Perforin, but not DTa, from a DNA vaccine enhances the immune response', Immunology and Cell Biology, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 359-367. 15 16 27
2014	Gargett, T, Grubor-Bauk, B, Miller, D, Garrod, T, Yu, S, Wesselingh, S, Suhrbier, A & Gowans, EJ 2014, 'Increase in DNA vaccine efficacy by virosome delivery and co-expression of a cytolytic protein', Clinical and Translational Immunology, vol. 3, article no. e18, pp. 1-7. Open access 1
2014	Garrod, T, Grubor-Bauk, B, Yu, S, Gargett, T & Gowans, EJ 2014, 'Encoded novel forms of HSP70 or a cytolytic protein increase DNA vaccine potency', Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 2679-2683. 4 5 1
2014	Garrod, TJ, Bruber-Bauk, B, Gargett, T, Li, Y, Miller, DS, Wenbo, Y, Major, L, Burrell, CJ, Wesselingh, S, Suhrbier, A & Gowans, EJ 2014, 'DNA vaccines encoding membrane-bound or secreted forms of heat shock protein 70 exhibit improved potency', European Journal of Immunology, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1992-2002. Open access 15 14 1
2014	Garrod, TJ, Gargett, T, Yu, W, Major, L, Burrell, CJ, Wesselingh, S, Suhrbier, A, Grubor-Bauk, B & Gowans, EJ 2014, 'Loss of long term protection with the inclusion of HIV pol to a DNA vaccine encoding gag', Virus Research, vol. 192, pp. 25-33. 5 5 1
2014	Yu, W, Grubor-Bauk, B, Gargett, T, Garrod, T & Gowans, EJ 2014, 'A novel challenge model to evaluate the efficacy of hepatitis C virus vaccines in mice', Vaccine, vol.32, no. 27, pp. 3409-3416. 9 8
2010	Brown, CY, Sadlon, T, Gargett, T, Melville, E, Zhang, R, Drabsch, Y, Ling, M, Strathdee, CA, Gonda, TJ & Barry, SC 2010, 'Robust, reversible gene knockdown using a single lentiviral short hairpin RNA vector', Human Gene Therapy, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1005-1017. 24 23

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Amgen Inc	UNITED STATES
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Baylor College of Medicine	UNITED STATES
Houston Methodist Hospital	UNITED STATES
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science	AUSTRALIA
Lipotek Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	AUSTRALIA
Queensland Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA
Royal Adelaide Hospital	AUSTRALIA
Royal Darwin Hospital	AUSTRALIA
SA Pathology	AUSTRALIA
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI)	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNITED STATES
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Texas	UNITED STATES
Women and Children's Health Research Institute	CANADA

Teaching & student supervision

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Finding out how well chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells kill brain tumour cells	Current

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