In the Spotlight...
A shared neoantigen vaccine combined with immune checkpoint blockade for advanced metastatic solid tumors: phase 1 trial interim results
Identification of Enhanced Vaccine Mimotopes for the p15E Murine Cancer Antigen
Molecular patterns of resistance to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma
Myeloid-T cell interplay and cell state transitions associated with checkpoint inhibitor response in melanoma
Previous Digests
AACR Annual Meeting 2024
April 17, 2024
Last week, the ACIR team attended the AACR Annual Meeting 2024 in San Diego, California. This week’s extensive special feature covers select talks from the conference. We have organized the content by topics below. AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J...
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA: Beyond Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Overcoming Resistance
April 10, 2024
The ACIR team attended the Keystone Symposia on Cancer Immunotherapy: Beyond Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Overcoming Resistance held on March 17-20, 2024 in Whistler, BC, Canada. This week’s extensive special feature covers select talks from the conference. We have...
Macrophage makeover required for effective CTLA-4 and ICOS combination therapy
April 3, 2024
Having previously shown that ICOS stimulation via an ICOSL-transduced B16F10 cellular vaccine (IVAX) works synergistically with CTLA-4 immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in various murine tumor models, Sharma et al. set out to explore the mechanism of action of this...
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ACIR's mission is to fast-track cancer immunotherapy research by helping researchers stay on top of the new literature in this fast-moving and multifaceted field, fostering their creativity and productivity in bringing us ever closer to curing this deadly disease.
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Ute Burkhardt
Lauren Hitchings
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Katherine J. Turner
Stan Wolf
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Shishir Pant
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I am pleased to voice my support for the mission of ACIR to keep cancer immunotherapy researchers up to date with the current advancements in the field. Given the magnitude of new information emerging from this field, I particularly appreciate their efforts to both identify and highlight the key advancements each week and to distill the new information to key take-away points that can be easily grasped.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, MGH Center for Cancer Immunology; Institute Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
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