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A combined diagnostic and targeted gene therapy platform for brain tumor relapse

Descripción del proyecto

Una innovadora plataforma para el tratamiento de las recidivas en tumores encefálicos

La resistencia al tratamiento es la principal causa de muerte después de la quimioterapia y la radiación convencionales en niños y adultos con tumores encefálicos malignos. El proyecto Soxradicate Relapse, financiado con fondos europeos, propone el uso de herramientas de pronóstico y de terapia génica suicida con virus genomodificados como un método innovador para actuar contra tumores encefálicos resistentes al tratamiento. Este método consiste en actuar de forma selectiva sobre células de tumores encefálicos para predecir el riesgo de recidiva y en utilizar una herramienta de terapia génica para eliminar las células responsables de la recidiva. La estrategia utilizará un virus genomodificado que actúa sobre células tumorales que no se dividen y que permiten escapar del tratamiento.

Objetivo

Emergence of therapy resistance is a major cause of death following conventional chemotherapy and radiation for children and adults with malignant brain tumors. It is imperative to find novel options to target therapy-resistant brain tumor populations to save lives. We propose a novel platform providing a prognostic tool and a suicide gene therapy tool using engineered viruses. It involves targeting freshly biopsied cells from brain tumor patients with our strategy in combination with standard therapy to predict risk of patients developing relapse and a gene therapy suicide tool to remove cells causing relapse.

Previous suicide gene therapies have only used viruses hitting dividing tumor cells. Our strategy will use an enigneered virus targeting non-dividing tumor cells that we know escape standard therapy. After removing the tumor bulk using standard treatment, we propose to use our virus with a marker for diagnostic purposes or a with a suicide gene that will be activated by a prodrug to eradicate therapy-resistant cells. Prodrug administration before recurrence will eliminate relapsed cells once they start dividing and become dangerous.

The impact of our strategy will be high, providing health care professionals with a better tool to identify patients at high risk of developing recurrence. Such patients can receive a better, more tailored treatment that will not only increase their chance of survival but also reduce their time under hospital care and rehabilitation. We protected our strategy with a filed patent and assessed our regulatory needs. We completed a market analysis to evaluate market size and potential benefit for cancer patients. We have disclosed competitors but also potential collaborators that can cofinance and move our strategy forward to in vitro diagnostic device registration and initial clinical trials. In our proposal we will apply for funding covering lab work to test efficacy and safety, help with registration and negotitation strategies.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

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Institución de acogida

UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 110 000,00
Dirección
VON KRAEMERS ALLE 4
751 05 Uppsala
Suecia

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Región
Östra Sverige Östra Mellansverige Uppsala län
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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