Project description
The next chapter in anticancer therapies
A new path towards developing novel and effective anticancer therapies is on the horizon. While immunotherapy is already being used to help patients with hard-to-treat tumours, the benefits are unevenly distributed. Clinical efficacy varies greatly and side effects persist. In this context, the EU-funded DECOD-Ag project will work towards an unbiased high-throughput transformative immunogenicity profiling platform. This will identify immunogenic tumour neoantigens with enabling technologies. Based on random mutagenesis and artificial antigen-presenting cells, this high-throughput screen technology will be developed by world-leading, interdisciplinary scientists with expertise in cancer immunotherapy, bioinformatics, peptidomics, mass spectrometry, immune monitoring, and clinical and translational medicine.
Objective
Immunotherapy has revolutionised cancer treatment, providing survival benefits in patients with hard-to-treat tumours. Tragically, these benefits are unevenly distributed. Clinical efficacy varies dramatically between (and within) cancer types, and severe side-effects persist. To address this, new treatment strategies seek the rational design of personalised therapies to achieve full eradication of most cancers. Such a vision can be achieved by inducing immune responses against the ultimate tumour-specific targets: immunogenic tumour neoantigens (iNeoAg). However, a major limitation is the lack of technologies to identify iNeoAg from the thousands of background mutations in tumours. The DECOD-Ag consortium envisions a revolutionary technology realising an unbiased high-throughput transformative immunogenicity profiling platform that, for the first time, uniquely identifies iNeoAgs with the following enabling technologies: i) high throughput screening technology based on random mutagenesis and artificial antigen-presenting cells, to categorise immune recognition (MHC-neoantigen) leading to T cell activation, define the rules of neoantigen-T cell engagement and the immunogenicity of the neoantigen; ii) robust in silico prediction algorithms to predict neoantigen immunogenicity; and iii) clinical validation workflow combining multiple advanced immune monitoring technologies. The DECOD-Ag project will be conducted by world-leading, interdisciplinary scientists, with expertise in cancer immunotherapy, bioinformatics, peptidomics, mass spectrometry, immune monitoring, clinical and translational medicine. The DECOD-Ag platform ImmungenX predictor will lead to a new frontier towards developing novel and effective anticancer therapies, with the radical potential to fully eradicate any tumour in any patient.
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
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H2020-EU.1.2. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
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H2020-EU.1.2.1. - FET Open
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RIA - Research and Innovation action
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(opens in new window) H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020
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WC1E 6BT London
United Kingdom
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