Objective
Leukaemias are the most common cancers affecting children while malignant lymphomas - including non-Hogkin lymphomas (NHL) - comes in third position after brain tumours. A significant number of children with leukaemia/lymphomas still fail current therapies. The aim of CHILDHOPE project is to develop a safe and efficient adoptive immuno-therapy for children with advanced or refractory malignancies. CHILDHOPE particularly focuses on three paediatric tumours: acute B-lineage lymphoblastic leukaemia, non-Hodgkin B-lineage lymphoma and acute myeloid leukaemia. The CHILDHOPE project is a new approach in paediatric cancer treatment since it brings from bench to bedside (and back) an innovative technology as yet never applied in children with advanced or refractory haematopoietic malignancies.
The CHILDHOPE translational research project will focus on: (i) improving and testing efficacy and the safety of anti-leukaemia/lymphoma chimaeric T-cells in relevant preclinical models in vitro and in vivo in mice, (ii) scaling-up this technology to numbers suitable for a clinical application in children with haematopoietic malignancies and (iii) based on biological material obtained from our preclinical models and from children treated with these genetically engineered T-cells, dissecting the interface between the host's tumour and immune cells and use this knowledge to understand the mechanisms of anti-tumour action, validate novel targets and diagnostic tools specific to children affected with leukaemia or lymphomas.
The CHILDHOPE project is built on the excellence of a network of EU-based partners with a broad experience in the field of paediatric haematology and oncology, immunology and cell & gene therapies and integrates the international confederation of parents with children with cancer and an SME specialised in the project management.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology genetic engineering gene therapy
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine hematology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology leukemia
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6
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Coordinator
LYON
France
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