Acronym
IMMUNO-FER-GUARD
Code
F2023/IOF-ConcepTT/106
Duration
20 December 2023 → 30 June 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Industrial Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Cell death and senescence
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Medical and health sciences
- Vaccinology
- Cancer therapy
Keywords
dendritic cell vaccines
immunogenic cell death
ferroptosis
melanoma
cell death
cancer immunotherapy
glioma
Project description
The median survival of patients diagnosed with glioblastoma is 12–15 months, with a five-year survival rate of 5%, and cutaneous melanoma is responsible for 80% of deaths from dermatological cancer. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop novel patient-adjusted anticancer immunotherapies that actively stimulate antitumor T cells, generate long- term memory, and result in significant clinical benefits. Dendritic cells (DCs) vaccines are used in cancer immunotherapy involving the use of DCs loaded with antigenic material derived from or based on the autologous tumor. In this project, we aim to develop and evaluate the use of novel and more efficient DC vaccines loaded with tumor lysates for melanoma and glioblastoma immunotherapy.