Project description
The next generation of cancer vaccines
Nanotechnology has been used in a variety of biomedical applications including the delivery of drugs and immunotherapeutics. The EU-funded iNANOVAC4CANCER project has investigated the potential of using nanoparticles to develop vaccines against cancer. Researchers have tested various biodegradable nanoparticles coated with membranes from different types of cells as a means of evading immune responses. Nanovaccines have the potential to enhance cancer treatment efficacy by boosting tumour-specific immune responses and increasing the remission time. Importantly, they can be applied to all tumours and can be tailor-made to fit the patient profile.
Objective
The innovation of the biohybrid and biodegradable nanovaccines to be taken to proof-of-concept lies in the combination of different parts of the nanovaccine. A biohybrid and biodegradable nanovaccine shows potential to: (i) enhance cancer treatment efficacy; (ii) to be universally applicable to all cancers, regardless of the tumour in question; (iii) prolonging the survival rate of cancer patients; (iv) increase the amount of complete tumor remissions; and (v) boost of tumor-specific immune responses. This will allow in the future towards a personalized patient cancer therapy/treatment. More importantly, the applicability of biohybrid and biodegradable nanovaccines extends beyond the cancer treatment, as it can be applied for other type of diseases.
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 clinical medicine oncology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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ERC-POC - Proof of Concept Grant
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) ERC-2018-PoC
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00014 Helsinki
Finland
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