Healthy donor-derived enriched CD4+/8+ T cells were isolated from leukocyte cones using SepMate, RosetteSep reagent (Stemcell Technologies) and Ficoll Paque density grade centrifugation. Excess cryopreserved leukapheresis from B-ALL patients on the ALLCAR19 trial (NCT02935257) were thawed, rested overnight in TexMACS (Miltenyi Biotec) supplemented with 3% human serum (Sigma Aldrich, Life Science Production) and enriched for CD4+/8+T cells using a microbead-based pan T-cell isolation kit (Miltenyi Biotec). Activation/transduction at small-scale was designed to mimic the cGMP Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy-based CAR-T manufacture process on ALLCAR19.20 (link) Selected T-cells were maintained in TexMACS supplemented with 3% human serum and 10 ng/mL IL7/IL15 (cTexMACS). Cells were activated with TransAct (Miltenyi Biotec) and transduced with concentrated lentivirus on retronectin-coated plates at a multiplicity of infection of 5, cells were maintained for a further 4 days for a total manufacturing time of 8 days. AKT inhibitor VIII (Merck Millipore/Ardena) was added at T-cell activation at a concentration of 1–5 µM and maintained throughout the culture period, with a media change every 48 hours.