Described herein are methods comprising administering to a mammalian subject an effective amount of an annexin chimeric fusion protein, wherein the annexin chimeric fusion protein comprises at least one immunogenic antigen, thereby enhancing the antigen specific immune response relative to administration of the immunogenic antige alone. Methods and kits for treating or preventing recurrence of hyper proliferating diseases, e.g., cancer, are described. A method may comprise priming a mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of a chemotherapeutic agent and boosting the mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of an annexin chimeric fusion.

Provided herein, in some embodiments, are methods and compositions (e.g., cell compositions) for the treatment of cancer, such as PTK7.sup.+ malignancies.

The technology relates in part to methods for controlling the activity or elimination of therapeutic cells using molecular switches that employ distinct heterodimerizer ligands, in conjunction with other multimeric ligands. The technology may be used, for example to activate or eliminate cells used to promote engraftment, to treat diseases or condition, or to control or modulate the activity of therapeutic cells that express chimeric antigen receptors or recombinant T cell receptors.

Provided herein is a method of expanding clinically-relevant quantities of polyclonal ?? T cells that have anti-tumor, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial reactivity. Polyclonal ?? T cells can target a variety of tumors, including solid tumors as well as other conditions, such as viral and bacterial infections.

The invention provides methods of treating inflammation in a specific organ or tissue of an individual. The method involves determining whether the individual has previously been infected with at least one pathogen that is pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue; and administering to the individual an anti-inflammatory composition comprising antigenic determinants, the antigenic determinants selected or formulated so that together they are specific for the at least one pathogen. The pathogen may be an endogenous or exogenous pathogen, and may further be a bacterial pathogen, a viral pathogen, a fungal pathogen, a protozoan pathogen, or a helminth pathogen.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a large amount of natural killer cells and the use of natural killer cells obtained by the method as an anticancer agent. The use of the method of the present invention can produce fresh NK cells with high purity within a short time compared to conventional method, and can also produce cold-preserved NK cells and thawed cryopreserved NK cells, which have efficacy comparable with that of the fresh NK cells. Furthermore, it can produce NK cells, which have efficacy comparable with that of the fresh NK cells, from cryopreserved CD3-negative cells. The fresh NK cells, cold-preserved NK cells and cryopreserved NK cells produced by the methods of the present invention can exhibit therapeutic effects against various cancers, including colorectal cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer and leukemia, indicating that these NK cells can be effectively used as cellular therapeutic agents. In addition, the present inventors have established doses and methods of administration, which show excellent effects when the fresh NK cells, cold-preserved NK cells and cryopreserved NK cells of the present invention are used as pharmaceutical compositions for cellular therapy.

A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that binds to CEACAM6, an epitope or fragment thereof, or a variant thereof.

Disclosed herein are chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that target MUC1*. In some embodiments, the CARs have been optimized to reduce T cell exhaustion.

The technology described herein is directed to antibody or antigen binding fragments thereof, e.g., nanobody, to PMEPA-1 overexpressed in tumor vascular endothelial cells. The antibody or antigen binding fragments to PMEPA-1 can be used to target an agent, for example, that induces cell death, for example, immunogenic or non-immunogenic cancer cell death, and in methods of treating cancer.

Provided are compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of mesothelin. Also provided are a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to mesothelin, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the mesothelin CAR. Further provided are methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises a mesothelin binding domain.