Advance Research in Neoepitopes, Cancer Vaccines and Immune Monitoring
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Immunology and Immunotherapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 3852
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, United States
Interests: cancer vaccine; neoantigens; personalized medicine; adjuvants; nanocarriers; peptide-MHC; MHC Tetramers; nucleic acid based-vaccines
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cancer immunology stage has never been this equipped for cancer vaccines. Neoantigen discovery and validation has been advancing expeditiously. The first wave of neoantigen-based vaccine discoveries has been very exciting in a personalized nature, which seem to be further promising based on new reports on public neoantigens. To this end, the development of nucleic-based cancer vaccines encoding for the neoepitopes, and later their novel nanocarriers, with positive preclinical data, have gotten closer to being injected into humans. Moreover, peptide-MHC-based cancer vaccines or their biosimilars and those that are bi-specific, carrying other immunomodulatory moieties, are being designed and tested, adding to the excitement of modern cancer vaccines. More importantly, only a fraction of cancer patients benefits from immune checkpoint blockades (ICBs), those that have intrinsic tumor specific T cell responses. Cancer vaccines are perhaps the best practical approach to elicit anti-tumor responses in naïve hosts. This Special Issue will include original research, review articles, commentaries, and editorials discussing the design, use, and immunomonitoring of various types of cancer vaccines. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the keywords listed below.
Dr. Pirouz Daftarian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cancer vaccine
- neoantigens
- neoepitope
- personalized medicine
- adjuvants
- nanocarriers
- peptide-MHC
- MHC Tetramers
- nucleic acid based-vaccines
- immune monitoring of vaccines
- nucleic acid-based vaccines
- Dendritic based cancer vaccines
- tumor specific antigens
- public neoantigens
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