Intratumoural administration and tumour tissue targeting of cancer immunotherapies

I Melero, E Castanon, M Alvarez, S Champiat… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are
revolutionizing oncology and haematology practice. With these and other immunotherapies …

Exploiting innate immunity for cancer immunotherapy

M Yi, T Li, M Niu, Q Mei, B Zhao, Q Chu, Z Dai, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment paradigms of various types of cancers.
However, most of these immunomodulatory strategies focus on harnessing adaptive …

CD40 agonist antibodies in cancer immunotherapy

RH Vonderheide - Annual review of medicine, 2020 - annualreviews.org
CD40 is a cell-surface member of the TNF (tumor necrosis factor) receptor superfamily.
Upon activation, CD40 can license dendritic cells to promote antitumor T cell activation and …

The immune revolution: a case for priming, not checkpoint

RH Vonderheide - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Most tumors are unresponsive to immune checkpoint blockade, especially if deep
immunosuppression in the tumor develops prior to and prevents T cell immunosurveillance …

Agonistic CD40 therapy induces tertiary lymphoid structures but impairs responses to checkpoint blockade in glioma

L van Hooren, A Vaccaro, M Ramachandran… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gliomas are brain tumors characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment.
Immunostimulatory agonistic CD40 antibodies (αCD40) are in clinical development for solid …

Intratumoral immunotherapy: from trial design to clinical practice

S Champiat, L Tselikas, S Farhane, T Raoult… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Systemic immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint blockade targeted at PD (L) 1 and
CTLA4 have demonstrated their ability to provide durable tumor responses and long-term …

Bispecific antibodies in cancer immunotherapy

E Dahlén, N Veitonmäki… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Following the clinical success of immune checkpoint antibodies targeting CTLA-4, PD-1 or
PD-L1 in cancer treatment, bispecific antibodies are now emerging as a growing class of …

New opportunities for nanoparticles in cancer immunotherapy

W Park, YJ Heo, DK Han - Biomaterials research, 2018 - spj.science.org
Background Recently, cancer immunotherapy has become standard for cancer treatment.
Immunotherapy not only treats primary tumors, but also prevents metastasis and recurrence …

CD40-mediated immune cell activation enhances response to anti-PD-1 in murine intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

LP Diggs, B Ruf, C Ma, B Heinrich, L Cui, Q Zhang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background & Aims While cholangiocarcinomas (CCAs) commonly express programmed
cell death 1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1), they respond poorly to immune checkpoint …

Rapid activation of tumor-associated macrophages boosts preexisting tumor immunity

S Hoves, CH Ooi, C Wolter, H Sade… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Depletion of immunosuppressive tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) or reprogramming
toward a proinflammatory activation state represent different strategies to therapeutically …