Summary
Immunotherapy has revolutionised cancer treatment, providing survival benefits in patients with hard-to-treat tumours. Tragically, these benefits are unevenly distributed. Clinical efficacy varies dramatically between (and within) cancer types, and severe side-effects persist. To address this, new treatment strategies seek the rational design of personalised therapies to achieve full eradication of most cancers. Such a vision can be achieved by inducing immune responses against the ultimate tumour-specific targets: immunogenic tumour neoantigens (iNeoAg). However, a major limitation is the lack of technologies to identify iNeoAg from the thousands of background mutations in tumours. The DECOD-Ag consortium envisions a revolutionary technology realising an unbiased high-throughput transformative immunogenicity profiling platform that, for the first time, uniquely identifies iNeoAgs with the following enabling technologies: i) high throughput screening technology based on random mutagenesis and artificial antigen-presenting cells, to categorise immune recognition triplets (MHC-neoantigen-TCR), define the rules of neoantigen-T cell engagement and the immunogenicity of the neoantigen; ii) robust in silico prediction algorithms to predict neoantigen immunogenicity and neoantigen-T cell pairing; and iii) clinical validation workflow combining multiple advanced immune monitoring technologies. The DECOD-Ag project will be conducted by world-leading, interdisciplinary scientists, with expertise in cancer immunotherapy, bioinformatics, peptidomics, mass spectrometry, immune monitoring, clinical and translational medicine. The DECOD-Ag platform and GENESIS predictor will lead to a new frontier towards developing novel and effective anticancer therapies, with the radical potential to fully eradicate any tumour in any patient.
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/964998 |
| Start date: | 01-06-2021 |
| End date: | 31-05-2026 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 2 999 993,75 Euro - 2 999 993,00 Euro |
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Immunotherapy has revolutionised cancer treatment, providing survival benefits in patients with hard-to-treat tumours. Tragically, these benefits are unevenly distributed. Clinical efficacy varies dramatically between (and within) cancer types, and severe side-effects persist. To address this, new treatment strategies seek the rational design of personalised therapies to achieve full eradication of most cancers. Such a vision can be achieved by inducing immune responses against the ultimate tumour-specific targets: immunogenic tumour neoantigens (iNeoAg). However, a major limitation is the lack of technologies to identify iNeoAg from the thousands of background mutations in tumours. The DECOD-Ag consortium envisions a revolutionary technology realising an unbiased high-throughput transformative immunogenicity profiling platform that, for the first time, uniquely identifies iNeoAgs with the following enabling technologies: i) high throughput screening technology based on random mutagenesis and artificial antigen-presenting cells, to categorise immune recognition triplets (MHC-neoantigen-TCR), define the rules of neoantigen-T cell engagement and the immunogenicity of the neoantigen; ii) robust in silico prediction algorithms to predict neoantigen immunogenicity and neoantigen-T cell pairing; and iii) clinical validation workflow combining multiple advanced immune monitoring technologies. The DECOD-Ag project will be conducted by world-leading, interdisciplinary scientists, with expertise in cancer immunotherapy, bioinformatics, peptidomics, mass spectrometry, immune monitoring, clinical and translational medicine. The DECOD-Ag platform and GENESIS predictor will lead to a new frontier towards developing novel and effective anticancer therapies, with the radical potential to fully eradicate any tumour in any patient.Status
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FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020Update Date
27-04-2024
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