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Measurement of the inclusive and differential t(t)over-bar gamma cross sections in the dilepton channel and effective field theory interpretation in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

Jean-François Carlin, Rakesh Chawla, Richard Pitts, Arvind Shah, Ian Smith, Randoald Müller, Carlos Andres Peña Reyes, Jung Eung Park, Thomas Mountford, Matthias Finger, Jin Won Seo, Johannes Steen, Josef Andreas Schuler, Olivier Martin, Melody Swartz, Kyumin Lee, Hoang-Trang Lam, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Ananda Sankar Roy, Bertrand François, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Xiaoqiang Wang, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Jian Zhao, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Justin Terence Notz Pekkanen, Joo Yeon Kim, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Jae-Woo Choi, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila, Myun Sik Kim, Chao Wang, Yixing Chen, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Tian Cheng, Ana Margarida Da Costa Ricardo, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Myeloid Cells Orchestrate Systemic Immunosuppression, Impairing the Efficacy of Immunotherapy against HPV+ Cancers

Melody Swartz, Nadine Fournier, Douglas Hanahan, Stephan Wullschleger, Gabriele Galliverti, Mélanie Louise Tichet

Cancers induced by human papillomaviruses (HPV) should be responsive to immunotherapy by virtue of expressing the immunogenic oncoproteins E6/E7. However, advanced forms of cervical cancer, driven by HPV, are poorly responsive to immune response-enhancing ...

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2020

Adjuvant-free immunization with infective filarial larvae as lymphatic homing antigen carriers

Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Sachiko Hirosue, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Esra Güç, David Scott Wilson

Controlled infection with intestinal nematodes has therapeutic potential for preventing the symptoms of allergic and autoimmune diseases. Here, we engineered larvae of the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis as a vaccine strategy to induce adaptive ...

Nature Research2020

Experimental Drainage Device to Reduce Lymphoedema in a Rat Model

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Melody Swartz, Marco Pisano, Valentina Triacca

Objective: Despite recent advances in pharmacological research and microsurgery, lymphoedema remains an incurable disease that deeply affects quality of life. There is an urgent need for innovative approaches to restore continuous lymph flow in affected ti ...

2019

Recruitment of CD103(+) dendritic cells via tumor-targeted chemokine delivery enhances efficacy of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Lambert Charles François Potin, Jun Ishihara

Although a clinical breakthrough for cancer treatment, it remains that a minority of patients respond to checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) immunotherapy. The composition of tumor-infiltrating immune cells has been identified as a key factor influencing CPI therap ...

2019

Antigens reversibly conjugated to a polymeric glyco-adjuvant induce protective humoral and cellular immunity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue, Laura Jeanbart, Xavier Fredy René Quaglia-Thermes, David Scott Wilson, Giacomo Olimpio Diaceri, Maria Anna Sofia Broggi, Michal Mateusz Raczy, Ruyi Wang

Fully effective vaccines for complex infections must elicit a diverse repertoire of antibodies (humoral immunity) and CD8+ T-cell responses (cellular immunity). Here, we present a synthetic glyco-adjuvant named p(Man-TLR7), which, when conjugated to antige ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Tumor-associated factors are enriched in lymphatic exudate compared to plasma in metastatic melanoma patients

Melody Swartz, Davide Demurtas, Lambert Charles François Potin, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Léa Maillat, Romain Hamelin, Natacha Anne-Sophie Bordry, Maria Anna Sofia Broggi, Alexandre Harari

Liquid biopsies allow monitoring of cancer progression and detection of relapse, but reliable biomarkers in melanoma are lacking. Because secreted factors preferentially drain to lymphatic vessels before dilution in the blood, we hypothesized that lymph sh ...

ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS2019

Inherent biomechanical traits enable infective filariae to disseminate through collecting lymphatic vessels

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Marco Pisano

Filariases are diseases caused by arthropod-borne filaria nematodes. The related pathologies depend on the location of the infective larvae when their migration, the asymptomatic and least studied phase of the disease, comes to an end. To determine factors ...

Springer2019

Targeted antibody and cytokine cancer immunotherapies through collagen affinity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Seung Tae Lee, Lambert Charles François Potin, Jun Ishihara, Kazuto Fukunaga, Michal Mateusz Raczy

Cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) has demonstrated clinical efficacy but is frequently accompanied with severe adverse events caused by excessive and systemic immune system activation. Here, we addressed ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2019

Lymphatic vessel density is associated with CD8(+) T cell infiltration and immunosuppressive factors in human melanoma

Melody Swartz, Olivier Michielin, Natacha Anne-Sophie Bordry, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser, Esther Danenberg, Maria Anna Sofia Broggi, Timothy Murray

Increased density of tumor-associated lymphatic vessels correlates with poor patient survival in melanoma and other cancers, yet lymphatic drainage is essential for initiating an immune response. Here we asked whether and how lymphatic vessel density (LVD) ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2018

Nanoparticle Conjugation of Human Papillomavirus 16 E7-long Peptides Enhances Therapeutic Vaccine Efficacy against Solid Tumors in Mice

Melody Swartz, Douglas Hanahan, Sylvie Hauert, Stephan Wullschleger, Gabriele Galliverti, Mélanie Louise Tichet

Treatment of patients bearing human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers with synthetic long-peptide (SLP) therapeutic vaccines has shown promising results in clinical trials against premalignant lesions, whereas responses against later stage carcinomas ha ...

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2018

Improving Efficacy and Safety of Agonistic Anti-CD40 Antibody Through Extracellular Matrix Affinity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Lambert Charles François Potin, Martina Damo, Jun Ishihara, Kazuto Fukunaga

CD40 is an immune costimulatory receptor expressed by antigen-presenting cells. Agonistic anti-CD40 antibodies have demonstrated considerable antitumor effects yet can also elicit serious treatment-related adverse events, such as liver toxicity, including ...

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2018

Primary human and rat beta cells release the intracellular autoantigens GAD65, IA-2 and proinsulin in exosomes together with cytokine-induced enhancers of immunity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Miriella Carmela Pasquier, Davide Demurtas, Sachiko Hirosue, Romain Hamelin, Steinunn Baekkeskov Hanahan, Michele De Palma, Edward Allen Phelps, Chiara Cianciaruso

The target autoantigens in several organ-specific autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes (T1D), are intracellular membrane proteins, whose initial encounter with the immune system is poorly understood. Here we propose a new model for how these prot ...

American Diabetes Association2017

Ccr7 ligand delivery and co-delivery in immunotherapy

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alice Anna Tomei, Iraklis Kourtis

Chemokines may be administered to a patient for immunotolerization. Chemokines include CCL19 and CCL21. Materials and methods for accomplishing tolerization and described. ...

2017

Tumor lymphangiogenesis promotes T cell infiltration and potentiates immunotherapy in melanoma

Melody Swartz, Olivier Michielin, Lambert Charles François Potin, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Amanda Waite Lund, Laura Jeanbart, Douglas Hanahan, Sylvie Hauert, Krisztian Homicsko, Natacha Anne-Sophie Bordry, Christopher Claude Giuseppe Tremblay, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser, Maria Anna Sofia Broggi, Elodie Da Costa

In melanoma, vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) expression and consequent lymphangiogenesis correlate with metastasis and poor prognosis. VEGF-C also promotes tumor immunosuppression, suggesting that lymphangiogenesis inhibitors may be clinicall ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2017

Transcellular Pathways in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Regulate Changes in Solute Transport by Fluid Stress

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç, Marco Pisano, Valentina Triacca

Rationale: The transport of interstitial fluid and solutes into lymphatic vessels is important for maintaining interstitial homeostasis and delivering antigens and soluble factors to the lymph node for immune surveillance. Transendothelial transport across ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2017

Vaccine nanocarriers: Coupling intracellular pathways and cellular biodistribution to control CD4 vs CD8 T cell responses

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Sylvie Hauert, Daniel Kenneth Bonner, Edward Allen Phelps, Aaron Mayer

Nanoparticle delivery systems are known to enhance the immune response to soluble antigens (Ags) and are thus a promising tool for the development of new vaccines. Our laboratory has engineered two different nanoparticulate systems in which Ag is either en ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Local induction of lymphangiogenesis with engineered fibrin-binding VEGF-C promotes wound healing by increasing immune cell trafficking and matrix remodeling

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser

Lymphangiogenesis occurs in inflammation and wound healing, yet its functional roles in these processes are not fully understood. Consequently, clinically relevant strategies for therapeutic lymphangiogenesis remain underdeveloped, particularly using growt ...

2017

Toll-like receptor 8 agonist nanoparticles mimic immunomodulating effects of the live BCG vaccine and enhance neonatal innate and adaptive immune responses

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Sachiko Hirosue, Daniel Kenneth Bonner

Background: Newborns display distinct immune responses, leaving them vulnerable to infections and impairing immunization. Targeting newborn dendritic cells (DCs), which integrate vaccine signals into adaptive immune responses, might enable development of a ...

2017

T Cells Redirected to a Minor Histocompatibility Antigen Instruct Intratumoral TNF alpha Expression and Empower Adoptive Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors

Melody Swartz

Donor-derived allogeneic T cells evoke potent graft versus tumor (GVT) effects likely due to the simultaneous recognition of tumor-specific and host-restricted minor histocompatibility (H) antigens. Here we investigated whether such effects could be reprod ...

Amer Assoc Cancer Research2017