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Mechanical Immunoengineering of T Cells for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally. Immunotherapy represents one of the most promising cancer treatments inducing complete and durable responses in a fraction of cancer patients. Despite the unprecedented clinical success achieved by T c ...

EPFL2022

Cancer-cell stiffening via cholesterol depletion enhances adoptive T-cell immunotherapy

Armand Kurum, Georg Fantner, Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Yuqing Xie, Li Tang, Murat Kaynak, Kewen Lei, Yugang Guo, Min Gao, Veronika Cencen, Lucia Bonati

Cancer cells enriched in cholesterol in their plasma membrane impair T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity, which can be augmented by stiffening the cancer cells via cholesterol depletion, as shown in mouse models of adoptive T-cell immunotherapy. Malignant transfo ...

2021

A Manganese Phosphate Nanocluster Activates the cGAS‐STING Pathway for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Armand Kurum, Yuqing Xie, Li Tang, Kewen Lei, Yugang Guo, Yu Zhao, Min Gao, Xiaomeng Hu, Simon Bart M. Van Herck

Targeting the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway with cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs), the natural STING agonists, is a promising immunotherapeutic strategy for cancer. However, the clinical application of natural CDNs as therapeutics is greatly hi ...

2021

T cell force-responsive delivery of anticancer drugs using mesoporous silica microparticles

Li Tang, Kewen Lei

T cell-based cancer immunotherapy has achieved great success in the clinic; however, only a small fraction of patients respond to this therapy. Strategies to specifically and safely augment anticancer activity through controlled delivery of T cell supporti ...

2020

Mechanical Immunoengineering of T-cells for Therapeutic Applications

Armand Kurum, Li Tang, Kewen Lei

T cells, a key component in adaptive immunity, are central to many immunotherapeutic modalities aimed at treating various diseases including cancer, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. The past decade has witnessed tremendous progress in immunot ...

2020

Surgery-free injectable macroscale biomaterials for local cancer immunotherapy

Li Tang, Kewen Lei

Immunotherapy can harness the power of host's immune system to fight cancer. In the last few decades, tremendous progress has been made in this field, with remarkable clinical successes achieved consisting of a durable response in a fraction of patients. H ...

2019

Neoantigen Vaccine Delivery for Personalized Anticancer Immunotherapy

Li Tang, Kewen Lei, Yugang Guo

2018