[PDF][PDF] Comprehensive genomic characterization of long non-coding RNAs across human cancers

…, Y Zhang, L Yang, W Shan, Q He, L Fan, LE Kandalaft… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
The discovery of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has dramatically altered our understanding
of cancer. Here, we describe a comprehensive analysis of lncRNA alterations at …

Low-dose radiotherapy reverses tumor immune desertification and resistance to immunotherapy

…, C Sempoux, U Dafni, A Harari, LE Kandalaft… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Low-dose radiation reprogrammed the tumor microenvironment of tumors with scarce immune
infiltration and together with immunotherapy induced simultaneous mobilization of innate …

[PDF][PDF] Cooperation between constitutive and inducible chemokines enables T cell engraftment and immune attack in solid tumors

…, JS Weber, SJ Rodig, SF Hodi, LE Kandalaft… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
We investigated the role of chemokines in regulating T cell accumulation in solid tumors.
CCL5 and CXCL9 overexpression was associated with CD8 + T cell infiltration in solid tumors. …

Personalized cancer vaccine effectively mobilizes antitumor T cell immunity in ovarian cancer

…, V Zoete, A Harari, G Coukos, LE Kandalaft - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
We conducted a pilot clinical trial testing a personalized vaccine generated by autologous
dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with oxidized autologous whole-tumor cell lysate (OCDC), which …

Antitumour dendritic cell vaccination in a priming and boosting approach

…, M Bassani-Sternberg, LE Kandalaft - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Mobilizing antitumour immunity through vaccination potentially constitutes a powerful
anticancer strategy but has not yet provided robust clinical benefits in large patient populations. …

[HTML][HTML] Whole tumor antigen vaccines: where are we?

CLL Chiang, G Coukos, LE Kandalaft - Vaccines, 2015 - mdpi.com
… A study demonstrated that the use of vitamin E supplement was able to reconstitute
immunological … Lana E. Kandalaft provided the outline and discussion points; provided ideas for …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering HLA-I motifs across HLA peptidomes improves neo-antigen predictions and identifies allostery regulating HLA specificity

…, HS Pak, PO Gannon, LE Kandalaft… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The precise identification of Human Leukocyte Antigen class I (HLA-I) binding motifs plays a
central role in our ability to understand and predict (neo-)antigen presentation in infectious …

A dendritic cell vaccine pulsed with autologous hypochlorous acid-oxidized ovarian cancer lysate primes effective broad antitumor immunity: from bench to bedside

CLL Chiang, LE Kandalaft, J Tanyi, AR Hagemann… - Clinical cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: Whole tumor lysates are promising antigen sources for dendritic cell (DC) therapy
as they contain many relevant immunogenic epitopes to help prevent tumor escape. Two …

[PDF][PDF] Myeloid antigen-presenting cell niches sustain antitumor T cells and license PD-1 blockade via CD28 costimulation

…, MCW Westergaard, IM Svane, LE Kandalaft… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The mechanisms regulating exhaustion of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) and
responsiveness to PD-1 blockade remain partly unknown. In human ovarian cancer, we show that …

[HTML][HTML] Neoantigen-specific CD8 T cells with high structural avidity preferentially reside in and eliminate tumors

…, N Rufer, D Gfeller, LE Kandalaft… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The success of cancer immunotherapy depends in part on the strength of antigen recognition
by T cells. Here, we characterize the T cell receptor (TCR) functional (antigen sensitivity) …