COAST: an open-label, phase II, multidrug platform study of durvalumab alone or in combination with oleclumab or monalizumab in patients with unresectable, stage …

RS Herbst, M Majem, F Barlesi, E Carcereny… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Durvalumab significantly improves overall survival for patients with unresectable
stage III non–small-cell lung cancer and no progression after concurrent chemoradiotherapy …

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in the immunotherapy era

ST Paijens, A Vledder, M de Bruyn… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical success of cancer immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has refocused attention
on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) across cancer types. The outcome of immune …

Exploring the NK cell platform for cancer immunotherapy

JA Myers, JS Miller - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic lymphocytes of the innate immune system that are
capable of killing virally infected and/or cancerous cells. Nearly 20 years ago, NK cell …

Mechanisms of immune activation and regulation: lessons from melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, JA Wargo, Y Samuels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Melanoma, a skin cancer that develops from pigment cells, has been studied intensively,
particularly in terms of the immune response to tumours, and has been used as a model for …

Designing cancer immunotherapies that engage T cells and NK cells

O Kyrysyuk, KW Wucherpfennig - Annual review of immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
T cells and natural killer (NK) cells have complementary roles in tumor immunity, and dual T
cell and NK cell attack thus offers opportunities to deepen the impact of immunotherapy …

Functional exhaustion of antiviral lymphocytes in COVID-19 patients

M Zheng, Y Gao, G Wang, G Song, S Liu… - Cellular & molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China. 1 It was named
by the World Health Organization as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Tumor-infiltrating natural killer cells

B Cózar, M Greppi, S Carpentier, E Narni-Mancinelli… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Because of their potent antitumor activity and their proinflammatory role, natural killer (NK)
cells are at the forefront of efforts to develop immuno-oncologic treatments. NK cells …

KIR-based inhibitory CARs overcome CAR-NK cell trogocytosis-mediated fratricide and tumor escape

Y Li, R Basar, G Wang, E Liu, JS Moyes, L Li… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Trogocytosis is an active process that transfers surface material from targeted to effector
cells. Using multiple in vivo tumor models and clinical data, we report that chimeric antigen …

In vivo CRISPR screens reveal the landscape of immune evasion pathways across cancer

J Dubrot, PP Du, SK Lane-Reticker, EA Kessler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The immune system can eliminate tumors, but checkpoints enable immune escape. Here,
we identify immune evasion mechanisms using genome-scale in vivo CRISPR screens …

NK cells and solid tumors: therapeutic potential and persisting obstacles

L Tong, C Jiménez-Cortegana, AHM Tay, S Wickström… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Natural killer (NK) cells, which are innate lymphocytes endowed with potent cytotoxic
activity, have recently attracted attention as potential anticancer therapeutics. While NK cells …