Researchers identify DPY30 as an epigenetic target to sensitize pancreatic tumors to immunotherapy. UC San Diego researchers redirect CMV immunity against pancreatic cancer in preclinical models. A Fred Hutch researcher receives ACS grant to study immunotherapy resistance in melanoma.
A first-in-human trial shows individualized neoantigen mRNA vaccines generated multi-year T cell responses in early-stage TNBC patients, with 82.9% of targeted mutations eliciting measurable immune activation not detectable before vaccination.
Moderna and Merck are recruiting patients for a Phase 2 trial testing V940, an mRNA-based cancer vaccine, combined with Keytruda and chemotherapy as first-line treatment for metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
Engineered regulatory T cell therapies are progressing through clinical trials for autoimmune diseases and organ transplant rejection, with CAR-Treg candidates showing promising early results in rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions.