Transforming vaccinology

R Rappuoli, G Alter, B Pulendran - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic placed the field of vaccinology squarely at the center of global
consciousness, emphasizing the vital role of vaccines as transformative public health tools …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering customized nanovaccines for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

J Guo, C Liu, Z Qi, T Qiu, J Zhang, H Yang - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanovaccines have gathered significant attention for their potential to elicit tumor-specific
immunological responses. Despite notable progress in tumor immunotherapy, nanovaccines …

Trained immunity inducers in cancer immunotherapy

Y Sui, JA Berzofsky - Frontiers in immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
While most of the cancer immunotherapy strategies engage adaptive immunity, especially
tumor-associated T cells, the small fraction of responding patients and types of cancers …

Integrated organ immunity: a path to a universal vaccine

B Pulendran - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Here, I introduce the concept of 'integrated organ immunity'to explain how the innate and
adaptive immune systems and non-haematopoietic cells can interact in tissues to generate …

Trained immunity is regulated by T cell-induced CD40-TRAF6 signaling

MME Jacobs, RJF Maas, I Jonkman, Y Negishi… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Trained immunity is characterized by histone modifications and metabolic changes in innate
immune cells following exposure to inflammatory signals, leading to heightened …

The Influence of Cross-Reactive T Cells in COVID-19

PJ Eggenhuizen, JD Ooi - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Memory T cells form from the adaptive immune response to historic infections or
vaccinations. Some memory T cells have the potential to recognise unrelated pathogens like …

Discovering adaptive features of innate immune memory

M Sadeghi, M Divangahi - Immunological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conventionally, it was thought that innate immunity operated through a simple system of
nonspecific responses to an insult. However, this perspective now seems overly simplistic. It …

High-dose intravenous BCG vaccination induces enhanced immune signaling in the airways

JM Peters, EB Irvine, MS Makatsa, JM Rosenberg… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Intradermal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the most widely administered vaccine, but it
does not sufficiently protect adults against pulmonary tuberculosis. Recent studies in …

Intranasal vaccination with engineered BCG expressing CCL2 induces a stronger immune barrier against Mycobacterium tuberculosis than BCG

S Guo, J Ouyang, Z Hu, T Cao, C Huang, J Mou, X Gu… - Molecular Therapy, 2024 - cell.com
Intradermal Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is currently
the only licensed strategy for preventing tuberculosis (TB). It provides limited protection …

Antiviral innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages following SARS-CoV-2 infection ameliorates secondary influenza A virus disease

A Lercher, JG Cheong, MJ Bale, C Jiang, HH Hoffmann… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Pathogen encounter can result in epigenetic remodeling that shapes disease caused by
heterologous pathogens. Here, we examined innate immune memory in the context of …