Described are compositions of matter, protocols, and treatment means for induction of immune mediated killing in dogs suffering from cancer. The invention provides means of extracting peripheral blood from a canine patient, expanding immunocytes capable of killing cancer cells in vitro, and re-administering said immunocytes into a patient in need of therapy. In one embodiment, immunocytes expanded are T cells possessing tumor cytotoxic activity induced by stimulation of NKG2D.

This invention relates to methods, peptides, nucleic acids and cells for use in isolating and expanding human T cell populations in an antigen-specific manner for immunodiagnostic or therapeutic purposes. The invention also relates to professional antigen presenting cells derived from pluripotent human stem cells, and to customizable antigen presentation by the antigen presenting cells.

The present invention provides methods of engineering ?? T cells (e.g., v?1 T cells and v?2 T cells) by transduction with a viral vector (e.g., a viral vector with a betaretroviral pseudotype and a 5 Retroviridae family viral vector backbone). Further provided are compositions of engineered ?? T cells and methods of using the same.

The present disclosure relates generally to methods of treating or preventing cancer, the method comprising administering to a subject in need of treatment at least one tissue differentiation factor related polypeptide (TDFRP), wherein the TDFRP is administered in an amount effective to treat the cancer in the subject.

Provided are a culture medium and a culture method for human primary acute myeloid leukemia cells. The culture medium for human primary acute myeloid leukemia cells contains a glutamine additive, non-essential amino acids, human interleukin-6, human interleukin-7, human interleukin-3, recombinant human FLT3 Ligand, a recombinant human macrophage colony stimulating factor and a human stem cell factor. Acute myeloid leukemia cells can be cultured with higher amplification efficiency and longer in-vitro culture time by using the culture medium and culture method. Also provided are human primary acute myeloid leukemia cells cultured in vitro by using the culture medium, and the use thereof for curative effect evaluation and screening of drugs.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for treatment of breast cancer. Disclosed methods and compositions include dendritic cells loaded with cyclin B1 and WT-1 peptide antigens for immunotherapy. These dendritic cell vaccines are administered alone or in combination with other cancer therapies to improve outcomes. Disclosed methods also involve the use of therapeutic agents, such as anakinra, that block the IL-1 inflammation pathway. These agents are used in combination with chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy in treating breast cancer.

The present invention concerns methods of generating CTLs that are able to target at least one antigen from two or more viruses. The method includes exposing mixtures of peptides for different antigens to the same plurality of PBMCs and, at least in certain aspects, expanding the cells in the presence of IL4 and IL7.

The present invention relates to novel methods for the isolation and the selective ex vivo expansion of V?2.sup.? TCR??.sup.+T cells and to their clinical application.

Described herein are methods for the preparation of stable semi-mature tolerogenic dendritic cells and compositions comprising such stable semi-mature tolerogenic dendritic cells. The stable semi-mature tolerogenic dendritic cells described herein and compositions thereof can be used for the establishment of immune tolerance when treating an autoimmune disease, graft rejection and/or graft-versus-host disease.

Cell culture systems for producing IL-33 induced T9 cells and methods of using the IL-33 induced T9 cells (T9.sub.IL-33 cells) in a cell therapy for increasing anti-tumoral activity following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and/or treating graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) are disclosed herein. Further, methods of using the T9.sub.IL-33 cells, alone or in combination with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, are described herein for cancer treatment.