Revolutionary Platform to Decipher Immunogenicity of Tumour Neoantigens the Ult...
Revolutionary Platform to Decipher Immunogenicity of Tumour Neoantigens the Ultimate Targets for Future Immunotherapies to Eradicate Cancer
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)...
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Información proyecto DECOD-Ag
Duración del proyecto: 62 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2021-03-08
Fecha Fin: 2026-05-31
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Descripción del proyecto
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 triplets (MHC-neoantigen-TCR), 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 neoantigen-T cell pairing; 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 and GENESIS 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.