Project description
Advancing cancer immunotherapy through engineered immune receptors
Immunotherapy offers a promising approach to eradicating cancer and generating long-lasting immunity. However, existing strategies require further development to reduce side effects and become more effective against more types of cancer. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EN-ACTI2NG project aims to improve engineered immune receptors in T cells and understand their mechanisms of action. The goal is to address the challenges of limited tumour reactivity and efficiency, as well as on- and off-target toxicity. The project will train PhD students in the development of T cell-mediated cancer immunotherapies, fostering communication skills between academia, industry, and the public. Findings have the potential to translate into scientific and therapeutic innovations.
Objective
The EN-ACTI2NG program (European Network on Anti-Cancer Immuno-Therapy Improvement by modification of CAR and TCR Interactions and Nanoscale Geometry) emanates from the recent clinical evidence that T cells expressing engineered tumor-specific immune receptors can eradicate certain tumors that do not respond to conventional treatment. To obtain T cells with reactivity to a wider array of tumors and to improve efficiency and on- and off-target toxicity are current challenges Therefore the EN-ACTI2NG program aims 1) to train PhD students with expertise in development of new and improved T cell-mediated cancer immuno-therapies; 2) to endow the PhD students with the ability to establish efficient communication between the academic and industrial research environments and between scientists and the general public; 3) to improve T cell mediated anti-cancer immuno-therapy by the identification and development of new cancer-specific immune receptors and enhancing their function by identifying and modifying their molecular mechanism of action. To reach these objectives we have designed individual research projects ranging from biophysical analysis of immune receptors, via molecular modification of their structure and testing their tumor killing capacity in cell-based and pre-clinical assays to product development. Secondments will assure that each PhD student will be exposed to these complementary approaches and that there will be synergic feedback between the projects, producing innovative results that could otherwise not be achieved. Extensive training in research-specific skills, career development and a continuous training in communication skills will allow the PhD students to become facilitators of the process of transformation of scientific innovation into products with social and economic value. As such, the EN-ACTI2NG program should contribute to overcoming the more general challenge of converting the European Community into an innovation-driven society.
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- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology genetic engineering
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics geometry
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.1. - Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers
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MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016
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28006 MADRID
Spain
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