A set of target peptides are presented by HLA A*0101, A*0201, A*0301, B*4402, B*2705, B*1402, and B*0702 on the surface of disease cells. They are envisioned to among other things (a) stimulate an immune response to the proliferative disease, e.g., cancer, (b) to function as immunotherapeutics in adoptive T cell therapy or as a vaccine, (c) facilitate antibody recognition of tumor boundaries in surgical pathology samples, (d) act as biomarkers for early detection and/or diagnosis of the disease, and (e) act as targets in the generation antibody-like molecules which recognize the target-peptide/MHC complex.

The present invention relates to a cell of the human immune system transduced or transfected with a T cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), said cell being further modified to render its MALT1 protease activity constitutive active. The present invention further relates a said cell of the human immune system for use as a medicament. In particular, the present invention relates to said cell for use in adoptive T cell therapy. The invention also comprises a cell of the human immune system transduced or transfected with a T cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and further modified to render its MALT1 protease activity constitutive active for use in a method of treating cancer. The invention also relates to a method for generating a cell of the human immune system, comprising modifying a cell to render MALT1 protease activity constitutive active. The invention further relates to an in vitro method of enhancing the activity of a cell of the human immune system transduced or transfected with a T cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), comprising modifying said cell in that MALT1 is rendered constitutive active. The invention also comprises an in vitro use of constitutive active MALT1 for enhancing the activity of a cell transduced or transfected with a T cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).

The present disclosure includes compounds and methods for treating a subject having a disease such as cancer. A treatment method includes administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of one or more peptides corresponding to a tumor neoantigen or administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of one or more oligonucleotides each having a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a peptide corresponding to a tumor neoantigen. The tumor neoantigens may be identified from patient-specific tumor mutations in the patient's tumor cells.

The present disclosure includes compositions and methods for treating gastrointestinal inflammatory disease and/or cancers. In certain aspects, the disclosure includes an isolated cell comprising a nucleic acid vector comprising a gene encoding the transcription factor ZBTB20 which is operably linked to a promoter.

The present disclosure relates to methods, cells, and compositions for preparing T cell populations and compositions for adoptive cell therapy. In particular, provided herein are methods for efficiently expanding and activating T cell populations for genetic engineering and adoptive T cell immunotherapies. Also provided are cells and compositions produced by the methods and methods of their use.

Provided herein are tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) engineered to express a membrane-bound interleukin 15 (mbIL15). The mbIL15 TILs can be expanded in vitro using a rapid expansion protocol without the use of exogenous interleukin 2 (IL2) and can be used in adoptive cell therapy without concomitant use of an exogenous cytokine such as IL2. The TIL can be further engineered such that the mbIL15 is operably linked to one or more drug responsive domains (DRDs), polypeptides that can regulate the abundance and/or activity of the IL15 upon binding of the DRD with a ligand. Also provided herein are components for making the modified TILs and methods for making and using the modified TILs.

Provided are methods and compositions for obtaining functionally enhanced derivative effector cells obtained from the differentiation of genomically engineered iPSCs. The derivative cells provided herein have stable and functional genome editing that delivers improved or enhanced therapeutic effects. Also provided are therapeutic compositions and the use thereof comprising the functionally enhanced derivative effector cells alone, or with antibodies or checkpoint inhibitors in combination therapies.

Provided herein are compositions, kits, and methods for manufacturing cells for adoptive cell therapy comprising engineered immune cells that overexpress miR200c and/or EpCAM.

This disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating cancer using chimeric antigen receptor T cells and/or antigen binding domains targeting CLDN18.2.

Methods for treating cancer are disclosed which comprise administering to a subject T cells which have been pretreated ex vivo or in vitro with a fatty acid catabolism promoter to condition the T cell to use fatty acids rather than glucose for energy production. Still other methods comprise co-administering to a subject having a cancer characterized by a solid tumor (a) an immunotherapeutic composition targeting an antigen or ligand on the tumor cell; and (b) a compound or reagent that promotes the use of fatty acid catabolism by tumor antigen-specific T cells in the tumor microenvironment and/or T cells pretreated ex vivo with the fatty acid catabolism promoter to condition the T cell to use fatty acids rather than glucose for energy production for adoptive cell transfer. Both methods may also employ co-administration of a checkpoint inhibitor.