The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

Described herein is an immunogenic composition comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding two or more amino acid sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 19 to 50. Also described herein is an immunogenic composition comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding two or more amino acid sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 141 to 272. Also described herein is an immunogenic composition comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding two or more amino acid sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 273 to 322. Also described herein is an immunogenic composition comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding two or more amino acid sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 354 to 458.

Provided are monoclonal antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof for suppressing a CD73 immune checkpoint, and uses thereof, wherein the antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof can bind to CD73, reduce enzymatic activity of CD73 protein, and inhibit cancer metastasis or cancer growth, thus enabling uses thereof as therapeutic agents for cancer.

Use of an IL-1β binding antibody or a functional fragment thereof, especially canakinumab or a functional fragment thereof, or gevokizumab or a functional fragment thereof, and biomarkers for the treatment and/or prevention of a cancer having at least a partial inflammatory basis.

The present invention relates to a method of treating HER2/NEU overexpressing cancers. The inventors discovered that the heme-mediated formation of dimers and in general oligomers of Trastuzumab is associated with an improved complement-mediated cytotoxicity on breast cancer cells. The present data highlight that the sensitivity to heme of Trastuzumab, may have major repercussion on its therapeutic activity. Thus the invention relates to the combination of an HER2/neu antibody with a heme and/or of its oligomers and its therapeutic composition in the HER2/NEU characteristic cancer treatment.

Disclosed herein are methods of increasing response to radiation therapy in subjects afflicted with cancer. In some embodiments, the method comprises reducing the ability of an immune suppressor cell (e.g., MDSC) to migrate to the microenvironment of the cancer. In some embodiments, the method further comprises suppressing the migration of the immune suppressor cell to a non-malignant cell and/or suppressing the malignant transformation of the non-malignant cells.

Provided is an antibody that recognizes and binds to carbonic anhydrase or antigen-binding fragment, a nucleic acid molecule coding for the antibody or antigen-binding fragment, a vector carrying the nucleic acid molecule, a host cell including the nucleic acid molecule or the vector, and use of the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof in the alleviation, prevention, treatment or diagnosis of solid cancers.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for identifying neoantigens and using neoantigens in the use of treating cancer, as well as autoimmune diseases, where antigens causing tissue destruction.

The present invention is based, in part, on cancer vaccine compositions that comprise PTEN- and p53-deficient cancer cells with activated TGFβ-Smad/p63 signaling pathway, and methods for using same to prevent and/or treat cancer.

The present invention relates to compositions, methods, and kits for eliciting an immune response to at least one CMV antigen expressed by a cancer cell, in particular for treating and preventing cancer. CMV determination methods, compositions, and kits also are provided.