Project description
New software to design patient-specific cancer vaccines
Scientists expect personalised immunotherapy could cure cancer but this involves personalised vaccination – a complicated, time-consuming, costly laboratory process to target a specific case of mutation. For this reason, researchers are developing algorithms to identify immunogenic neoantigens via next generation sequencing (NGS) data from tumour samples. The EU-funded MEDIVAC project aims to support this process by applying the machine learning framework from Oncolmmunity (OI). It provides an opportunity to use several public and other databases to significantly increase the performance of the identification process for relevant neoantigens. This will bring medical science much closer to introducing a promising personalised vaccination for cancer therapy.
Fields of science
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugsvaccines
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsRNA
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineimmunologyimmunotherapy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
Coordinator
0379 Oslo
Norway
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