The present invention provides in certain embodiments compositions comprising at least one CD200 inhibitor, and methods of reversing or modulating immune suppression in a patient having a disease or disorder arising from abnormal cell growth, function or behavior, which method comprises administering to a patient in need thereof a CD200 inhibitor composition.

A polypeptide comprising a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising (i) an extracellular domain capable of binding to a first antigen, (ii) a transmembrane domain, and (iii) an intracellular domain; and a domain capable of binding to a second antigen expressed on the surface of a cell that can interact with a T cell, wherein the CAR and the domain are fused by a peptide linker.

Disclosed herein is a polynucleotide comprising a human codon-optimized sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising EGFR806CAR. The codon-optimized sequence may be incorporated into a construct comprising an optimal-functioning promoter, spacer, intracellular signaling domain, transmembrane domain, selection marker, at least one self-cleaving peptides, and EFGRt, in order to optimize expression. This sequence may then be expressed in cells, such as T cells, for the treatment or inhibition of a cancer, such as glioblastoma, liquid tumors, or solid tumors.

Described are modified T cells overexpressing one or more glucose transporters. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the glucose transporter overexpressing T cells are also described. The glucose transporter overexpressing T cells and pharmaceutical compositions can be used in adoptive cell therapies.

The present invention relates generally to the treatment of PML by infusion of activated and expanded autologous lymphocytes.

The invention relates to cell death inducing chimeric antigen receptors (D-CAR). In particular, the present invention relates to cell death inducing chimeric antigen receptors which comprise at least one death domain in their endodomain, including cell death inducing chimeric antigen receptors comprising within their death domains modifications which attenuate the self-association and/or binding to pro-apoptotic or pro-necrotic adaptor proteins, such as FADD or TRADD. Moreover, the present invention relates to an engineered immune cell expressing at its surface a cell death inducing CAR of the present invention and, optionally, an activating chimeric antigen receptor, wherein the extracellular ligand-binding domains of the cell death inducing CAR and the activating CAR bind to different antigens. The engineered immune cell may furthermore comprise at least one edited (e.g., inactivated) gene selected from TCR genes, immune check point genes, genes involved in drug resistance, and combinations thereof.

The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of EGFRvIII. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to EGFRvIII, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the anti-EGFRvIII CAR. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises an anti-EGFRvIII binding domain.

This disclosure is directed to novel CD133-binding agents. The disclosure is also directed to uses of novel CD133-binding agents for detecting CD133-expressing cells and/or quantitating levels of cellular CD133 expression, for targeting CD133-expressing cells, for decreasing levels of CD133 in CD133-expressing cells and for treating or preventing cancer.

Peptides that generate an immune response to glioma-related H3.3 proteins and methods of their use are provided.

Provided are specific binding molecules, or fragments thereof, that bind to an epitope of IL13R2, a receptor polypeptide preferentially found on the surface of cancer cells rather than healthy cells. Exemplary specific binding molecules are bispecific binding molecules that comprise a fragment of an IL13R2 binding molecule and a peptide providing a second function providing a signaling function of the signaling domain of a T cell signaling protein, a peptide modulator of T cell activation, or an enzymatic component of a labeling system. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding such a specific binding molecule (e.g., bispecific binding molecule), vectors, host cells, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preventing, treating or ameliorating a symptom associated with a cancer disease such as a solid tumor disease (e.g., glioblastoma multiforme).