Christopher Seet – Molecular Biology Institute

Email: cseet@mednet.ucla.edu

Publications:

Zhang TH, Shi Y, Komarova NL, Wordaz D, Kostelny M, Gonzales A, Abbaali I, Chen H, Bresson-Tan G, Dimapasoc M, Harvey W, Oh C, Carmona C, Seet C, Du Y, Sun R, Zack JA, Kim JT. Barcoded HIV-1 reveals viral persistence driven by clonal proliferation and distinct epigenetic patterns. Nat Commun. 2025 Feb 14; 16(1):1641. view on PubMed

Li YR, Fang Y, Niu S, Zhu Y, Chen Y, Lyu Z, Zhu E, Tian Y, Huang J, Rezek V, Kitchen S, Hsiai T, Zhou JJ, Wang P, Chai-Ho W, Park S, Seet CS, Oliai C, Yang L. Allogeneic CD33-directed CAR-NKT cells for the treatment of bone marrow-resident myeloid malignancies. Nat Commun. 2025 Feb 01; 16(1):1248. view on PubMed

Jiang H, Limsuwannarot S, Kulhanek KR, Pal A, Rysavy LW, Su L, Labiad O, Testa S, Ogana H, Waghray D, Tao P, Jude KM, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Moding EJ, Garcia KC, Kalbasi A. IL-9 as a naturally orthogonal cytokine with optimal JAK/STAT signaling for engineered T cell therapy. bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 19. view on PubMed

Yoo SP, Yuan X, Engstrom C, Chang P, Li S, Lathrop L, Lagosh J, Seet C, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Stage-specific CAR-mediated signaling generates naïve-like, TCR-null CAR T cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 28. view on PubMed

Bahlis NJ, Samaras C, Reece D, Sebag M, Matous J, Berdeja JG, Shustik J, Schiller GJ, Ganguly S, Song K, Seet CS, Acosta-Rivera M, Bar M, Quick D, Fonseca G, Liu H, Gentili C, Singh P, Siegel D. Pomalidomide/Daratumumab/Dexamethasone in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma: Final Overall Survival From MM-014. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2024 Dec; 24(12):852-862. view on PubMed

Li YR, Zhou Y, Yu J, Kim YJ, Li M, Lee D, Zhou K, Chen Y, Zhu Y, Wang YC, Li Z, Yu Y, Dunn ZS, Guo W, Cen X, Husman T, Bajpai A, Kramer A, Wilson M, Fang Y, Huang J, Li S, Zhou Y, Zhang Y, Hahn Z, Zhu E, Ma F, Pan C, Lusis AJ, Zhou JJ, Seet CS, Kohn DB, Wang P, Zhou XJ, Pellegrini M, Puliafito BR, Larson SM, Yang L. Generation of allogeneic CAR-NKT cells from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using a clinically guided culture method. Nat Biotechnol. 2025 Mar; 43(3):329-344. view on PubMed

Li Y, Seet CS, Mack R, Joshi K, Runde AP, Hagen PA, Barton K, Breslin P, Kini A, Ji HL, Zhang J. Distinct roles of hematopoietic cytokines in the regulation of leukemia stem cells in murine MLL-AF9 leukemia. Stem Cell Reports. 2024 01 09; 19(1):100-111. view on PubMed

Chang PC, Yuan X, Zampieri A, Towns C, Yoo SP, Engstrom C, Tsai S, Robles CR, Zhu Y, Lopez S, Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Crooks GM. Generation of antigen-specific mature T cells from RAG1-/-RAG2-/-B2M-/- stem cells by engineering their microenvironment. Nat Biomed Eng. 2024 04; 8(4):461-478. view on PubMed

Salehi-Rad R, Lim RJ, Du Y, Tran LM, Li R, Ong SL, Ling Huang Z, Dumitras C, Zhang T, Park SJ, Crosson W, Kahangi B, Abascal J, Seet C, Oh M, Shabihkhani M, Paul M, Krysan K, Lisberg AE, Garon EB, Liu B, Dubinett SM. CCL21-DC in situ vaccination in murine NSCLC overcomes resistance to immunotherapy and generates systemic tumor-specific immunity. J Immunother Cancer. 2023 09; 11(9). view on PubMed

Yang S, Multani A, Garrigues JM, Oh MS, Hemarajata P, Burleson T, Green NM, Oliai C, Gaynor PT, Beaird OE, Winston DJ, Seet CS, Schaenman JM. Transient SARS-CoV-2 RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Mutations after Remdesivir Treatment for Chronic COVID-19 in Two Transplant Recipients: Case Report and Intra-Host Viral Genomic Investigation. Microorganisms. 2023 Aug 16; 11(8). view on PubMed

Pan Y, Phillips JW, Zhang BD, Noguchi M, Kutschera E, McLaughlin J, Nesterenko PA, Mao Z, Bangayan NJ, Wang R, Tran W, Yang HT, Wang Y, Xu Y, Obusan MB, Cheng D, Lee AH, Kadash-Edmondson KE, Champhekar A, Puig-Saus C, Ribas A, Prins RM, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Witte ON, Xing Y. IRIS: Discovery of cancer immunotherapy targets arising from pre-mRNA alternative splicing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 05 23; 120(21):e2221116120. view on PubMed

McAuley GE, Yiu G, Chang PC, Newby GA, Campo-Fernandez B, Fitz-Gibbon ST, Wu X, Kang SL, Garibay A, Butler J, Christian V, Wong RL, Everette KA, Azzun A, Gelfer H, Seet CS, Narendran A, Murguia-Favela L, Romero Z, Wright N, Liu DR, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Human T cell generation is restored in CD3δ severe combined immunodeficiency through adenine base editing. Cell. 2023 03 30; 186(7):1398-1416.e23. view on PubMed

Li S, Wang CS, Montel-Hagen A, Chen HC, Lopez S, Zhou O, Dai K, Tsai S, Satyadi W, Botero C, Wong C, Casero D, Crooks GM, Seet CS. Strength of CAR signaling determines T cell versus ILC differentiation from pluripotent stem cells. Cell Rep. 2023 03 28; 42(3):112241. view on PubMed

Mao Z, Nesterenko PA, McLaughlin J, Deng W, Burton Sojo G, Cheng D, Noguchi M, Chour W, DeLucia DC, Finton KA, Qin Y, Obusan MB, Tran W, Wang L, Bangayan NJ, Ta L, Chen CC, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Phillips JW, Heath JR, Strong RK, Lee JK, Wohlschlegel JA, Witte ON. Physical and in silico immunopeptidomic profiling of a cancer antigen prostatic acid phosphatase reveals targets enabling TCR isolation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 08 02; 119(31):e2203410119. view on PubMed

Wang Z, McWilliams-Koeppen HP, Reza H, Ostberg JR, Chen W, Wang X, Huynh C, Vyas V, Chang WC, Starr R, Wagner JR, Aguilar B, Yang X, Wu X, Wang J, Chen W, Koelker-Wolfe E, Seet CS, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM, Forman SJ, Brown CE. 3D-organoid culture supports differentiation of human CAR+ iPSCs into highly functional CAR T cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 Apr 07; 29(4):651-653. view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Tsai S, Seet CS, Crooks GM. Generation of Artificial Thymic Organoids from Human and Murine Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Curr Protoc. 2022 Apr; 2(4):e403. view on PubMed

Bahlis NJ, Siegel DS, Schiller GJ, Samaras C, Sebag M, Berdeja J, Ganguly S, Matous J, Song K, Seet CS, Acosta-Rivera M, Bar M, Quick D, Anz B, Fonseca G, Chung W, Lee K, Mouro J, Agarwal A, Reece D. Pomalidomide, dexamethasone, and daratumumab immediately after lenalidomide-based treatment in patients with multiple myeloma: updated efficacy, safety, and health-related quality of life results from the phase 2 MM-014 trial. Leuk Lymphoma. 2022 06; 63(6):1407-1417. view on PubMed

Kim JT, Zhang TH, Carmona C, Lee B, Seet CS, Kostelny M, Shah N, Chen H, Farrell K, Soliman MSA, Dimapasoc M, Sinani M, Blanco KYR, Bojorquez D, Jiang H, Shi Y, Du Y, Komarova NL, Wodarz D, Wender PA, Marsden MD, Sun R, Zack JA. Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo. Nat Commun. 2022 01 10; 13(1):121. view on PubMed

Zeidan AM, DeAngelo DJ, Palmer J, Seet CS, Tallman MS, Wei X, Raymon H, Sriraman P, Kopytek S, Bewersdorf JP, Burgess MR, Hege K, Stock W. Phase 1 study of anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody CC-90002 in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes. Ann Hematol. 2022 Mar; 101(3):557-569. view on PubMed

Li YR, Zhou Y, Kim YJ, Zhu Y, Ma F, Yu J, Wang YC, Chen X, Li Z, Zeng S, Wang X, Lee D, Ku J, Tsao T, Hardoy C, Huang J, Cheng D, Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Larson SM, Sasine JP, Wang X, Pellegrini M, Ribas A, Kohn DB, Witte O, Wang P, Yang L. Development of allogeneic HSC-engineered iNKT cells for off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapy. Cell Rep Med. 2021 11 16; 2(11):100449. view on PubMed

Stein EM, DiNardo CD, Fathi AT, Mims AS, Pratz KW, Savona MR, Stein AS, Stone RM, Winer ES, Seet CS, Döhner H, Pollyea DA, McCloskey JK, Odenike O, Löwenberg B, Ossenkoppele GJ, Patel PA, Roshal M, Frattini MG, Lersch F, Franovic A, Nabhan S, Fan B, Choe S, Wang H, Wu B, Hua L, Almon C, Cooper M, Kantarjian HM, Tallman MS. Ivosidenib or enasidenib combined with intensive chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed AML: a phase 1 study. Blood. 2021 04 01; 137(13):1792-1803. view on PubMed

Nesterenko PA, McLaughlin J, Cheng D, Bangayan NJ, Burton Sojo G, Seet CS, Qin Y, Mao Z, Obusan MB, Phillips JW, Witte ON. Droplet-based mRNA sequencing of fixed and permeabilized cells by CLInt-seq allows for antigen-specific TCR cloning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 01 19; 118(3). view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Sun V, Casero D, Tsai S, Zampieri A, Jackson N, Li S, Lopez S, Zhu Y, Chick B, He C, de Barros SC, Seet CS, Crooks GM. In Vitro Recapitulation of Murine Thymopoiesis from Single Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Cell Rep. 2020 10 27; 33(4):108320. view on PubMed

Bosticardo M, Pala F, Calzoni E, Delmonte OM, Dobbs K, Gardner CL, Sacchetti N, Kawai T, Garabedian EK, Draper D, Bergerson JRE, DeRavin SS, Freeman AF, Güngör T, Hartog N, Holland SM, Kohn DB, Malech HL, Markert ML, Weinacht KG, Villa A, Seet CS, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM, Notarangelo LD. Artificial thymic organoids represent a reliable tool to study T-cell differentiation in patients with severe T-cell lymphopenia. Blood Adv. 2020 06 23; 4(12):2611-2616. view on PubMed

Siegel DS, Schiller GJ, Samaras C, Sebag M, Berdeja J, Ganguly S, Matous J, Song K, Seet CS, Talamo G, Acosta-Rivera M, Bar M, Quick D, Anz B, Fonseca G, Reece D, Pierceall WE, Chung W, Zafar F, Agarwal A, Bahlis NJ. Pomalidomide, dexamethasone, and daratumumab in relapsed refractory multiple myeloma after lenalidomide treatment. Leukemia. 2020 12; 34(12):3286-3297. view on PubMed

Siegel DS, Schiller GJ, Song KW, Agajanian R, Stockerl-Goldstein K, Kaya H, Sebag M, Samaras C, Malek E, Talamo G, Seet CS, Mouro J, Pierceall WE, Zafar F, Chung W, Srinivasan S, Agarwal A, Bahlis NJ. Pomalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone in relapsed refractory multiple myeloma after lenalidomide treatment failure. Br J Haematol. 2020 02; 188(4):501-510. view on PubMed

Zhu Y, Smith DJ, Zhou Y, Li YR, Yu J, Lee D, Wang YC, Di Biase S, Wang X, Hardoy C, Ku J, Tsao T, Lin LJ, Pham AT, Moon H, McLaughlin J, Cheng D, Hollis RP, Campo-Fernandez B, Urbinati F, Wei L, Pang L, Rezek V, Berent-Maoz B, Macabali MH, Gjertson D, Wang X, Galic Z, Kitchen SG, An DS, Hu-Lieskovan S, Kaplan-Lefko PJ, De Oliveira SN, Seet CS, Larson SM, Forman SJ, Heath JR, Zack JA, Crooks GM, Radu CG, Ribas A, Kohn DB, Witte ON, Yang L. Development of Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Engineered Invariant Natural Killer T Cell Therapy for Cancer. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 10 03; 25(4):542-557.e9. view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Li S, Chick B, Zhu Y, Chang P, Tsai S, Sun V, Lopez S, Chen HC, He C, Chin CJ, Casero D, Crooks GM. Organoid-Induced Differentiation of Conventional T Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 03 07; 24(3):376-389.e8. view on PubMed

Puig-Saus C, Parisi G, Garcia-Diaz A, Krystofinski PE, Sandoval S, Zhang R, Champhekar AS, McCabe J, Cheung-Lau GC, Truong NA, Vega-Crespo A, Komenan MDS, Pang J, Macabali MH, Saco JD, Goodwin JL, Bolon B, Seet CS, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM, Hollis RP, Campo-Fernandez B, Bischof D, Cornetta K, Gschweng EH, Adelson C, Nguyen A, Yang L, Witte ON, Baltimore D, Comin-Anduix B, Kohn DB, Wang X, Cabrera P, Kaplan-Lefko PJ, Berent-Maoz B, Ribas A. IND-Enabling Studies for a Clinical Trial to Genetically Program a Persistent Cancer-Targeted Immune System. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 02 01; 25(3):1000-1011. view on PubMed

Bapat A, Keita N, Martelly W, Kang P, Seet C, Jacobsen JR, Stoilov P, Hu C, Crooks GM, Sharma S. Myeloid Disease Mutations of Splicing Factor SRSF2 Cause G2-M Arrest and Skewed Differentiation of Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Stem Cells. 2018 11; 36(11):1663-1675. view on PubMed

Lyons O, Saha P, Seet C, Kuchta A, Arnold A, Grover S, Rashbrook V, Sabine A, Vizcay-Barrena G, Patel A, Ludwinski F, Padayachee S, Kume T, Kwak BR, Brice G, Mansour S, Ostergaard P, Mortimer P, Jeffery S, Brown N, Makinen T, Petrova TV, Modarai B, Smith A. Human venous valve disease caused by mutations in FOXC2 and GJC2. J Exp Med. 2017 Aug 07; 214(8):2437-2452. view on PubMed

Seet CS, He C, Bethune MT, Li S, Chick B, Gschweng EH, Zhu Y, Kim K, Kohn DB, Baltimore D, Crooks GM, Montel-Hagen A. Generation of mature T cells from human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in artificial thymic organoids. Nat Methods. 2017 May; 14(5):521-530. view on PubMed

Casero D, Sandoval S, Seet CS, Scholes J, Zhu Y, Ha VL, Luong A, Parekh C, Crooks GM. Long non-coding RNA profiling of human lymphoid progenitor cells reveals transcriptional divergence of B cell and T cell lineages. Nat Immunol. 2015 Dec; 16(12):1282-91. view on PubMed

Berent-Maoz B, Montecino-Rodriguez E, Fice M, Casero D, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Lowry W, Dorshkind K. The expansion of thymopoiesis in neonatal mice is dependent on expression of high mobility group a 2 protein (Hmga2). PLoS One. 2015; 10(5):e0125414. view on PubMed

Kohn LA, Seet CS, Scholes J, Codrea F, Chan R, Zaidi-Merchant S, Zhu Y, De Oliveira S, Kapoor N, Shah A, Abdel-Azim H, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Human lymphoid development in the absence of common γ-chain receptor signaling. J Immunol. 2014 Jun 01; 192(11):5050-8. view on PubMed

Zhang J, Seet CS, Sun C, Li J, You D, Volk A, Breslin P, Li X, Wei W, Qian Z, Zeleznik-Le NJ, Zhang Z, Zhang J. p27kip1 maintains a subset of leukemia stem cells in the quiescent state in murine MLL-leukemia. Mol Oncol. 2013 Dec; 7(6):1069-82. view on PubMed

Seet CS, Brumbaugh RL, Kee BL. Early B cell factor promotes B lymphopoiesis with reduced interleukin 7 responsiveness in the absence of E2A. J Exp Med. 2004 Jun 21; 199(12):1689-700. view on PubMed

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