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Engineering Innate and Adaptive Immunity for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Cancer immunotherapy has become an attractive strategy among different therapeutic modalities over the past few years and has showed great success in the clinic. However, there are many outstanding challenges hindering the current immunotherapies. In my Ph ...

EPFL2023

Rare predicted loss-of-function variants of type I IFN immunity genes are associated with life-threatening COVID-19

Jacques Fellay, Yu Zhang, Peng Zhang, Qian Zhang

BackgroundWe previously reported that impaired type I IFN activity, due to inborn errors of TLR3- and TLR7-dependent type I interferon (IFN) immunity or to autoantibodies against type I IFN, account for 15-20% of cases of life-threatening COVID-19 in unvac ...

BMC2023

The cGAS-STING pathway and cancer

Andrea Ablasser, Natasha Ella Samson

The cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS)-stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway has emerged as a critical innate immune pathway that, following engagement by DNA, promotes distinct immune effector responses that can impact virtually all aspects of tumori ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Enhancing T-cell response in cancer immunotherapy using nanoparticles

Cristiana Berti

Immunotherapy has been used in oncology in order to awaken the immune system of the patient against cancer. Within this promising field is emerging the use of therapeutic cancer vaccines, using tumor specific antigens to stimulate dendritic cells (DCs) ex ...

EPFL2021

Adjuvant-free immunization with infective filarial larvae as lymphatic homing antigen carriers

Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Sachiko Hirosue, Alexandre de Titta, Esra Güç, David Scott Wilson

Controlled infection with intestinal nematodes has therapeutic potential for preventing the symptoms of allergic and autoimmune diseases. Here, we engineered larvae of the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis as a vaccine strategy to induce adaptive ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Intracellular bacteria engage a STING-TBK1-MVB12b pathway to enable paracrine cGAS-STING signalling

Andrea Ablasser, Bing Zhang, Alix Martin, Ensieh Farahani

The innate immune system is crucial for eventual control of infections, but may also contribute to pathology. Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular Gram-positive bacteria and a major cause of food-borne disease. However, important knowledge on the int ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Type I Interferon Signaling Prevents IL-1 beta-Driven Lethal Systemic Hyperinflammation during Invasive Bacterial Infection of Soft Tissue

Alessandra Piersigilli

Type I interferons (IFN-Is) are fundamental for antiviral immunity, but their role in bacterial infections is contradictory and incompletely described. Streptococcus pyogenes activates IFN-I production in innate immune cells, and IFN-I receptor 1 (Ifnar1)- ...

Cell Press2016

Engineering the Extra Domain A of fibronectin as a vaccine adjuvant and study of its role in tissue regeneration

Ziad Julier

The extracellular matrix (ECM) protein fibronectin (FN) is a remarkably multifaceted molecule, including numerous fibronectin type III (FNIII) repeats carrying out different functions, which despite being extensively studied for over thirty years still pre ...

EPFL2016

Fibronectin EDA and CpG synergize to enhance antigen-specific Th1 and cytotoxic responses

Eleonora Simeoni, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Alizée Jéléna Grimm, Ziad Julier

Subunit vaccines, employing purified protein antigens rather than intact pathogens, require the addition of adjuvants for enhanced immunogenicity with a correct balance between strong activation of the immune system and low toxicity. Here we show that the ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Role of microRNAs in tumor-associated macrophages

Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) infiltrate both mouse and human tumors, typically in high numbers, and display complex interactions with cancer cells, endothelial cells (ECs) and other immune cells. TAMs comprise molecularly distinct subsets. Two such ...

EPFL2016

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