The present invention relates to a marker for determining anti-cancer effects of a mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway inhibitor. Specifically, the present invention relates to use of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway inhibitor for preparing a composition or a formulation for preventing and/or treating tumors. The present invention has found that the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway inhibitor has significantly excellent treatment effects on tumors having mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway up-regulation, low or no expression of an NNMT gene, high expression of a DNA methylase, high expression of UHRF1, a high methylation level of a nucleotide site of an NNMT gene and/or a high methylation level of a DNA CpG site of an NNMT gene region.

The present subject matter relates to the use of one or more inhibitors to treat a disease, e.g., cancer, in a subject. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that protein kinase B (AKT) and ring finger protein 167 (RNF167)-mediated CASTOR1 degradation activates the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) independent of arginine and promotes cancer progression. Accordingly, the presently disclosed subject matter provides for compositions, methods, and kits for treating a subject using an RNF167 inhibitor, an inhibitor that reduces phosphorylation of CASTOR1 at S14, ubiquitination and/or degradation of CASTOR1, or a combination thereof.

The present disclosure is directed to dual specific antibodies, which bind to both PD-L1 and PD-L2, and methods of using such antibodies to treat cancers, such as those that express or overexpress PD-L1, PD-L2, or both.

The current disclosure provides for novel therapeutic methods by identifying glioblastoma patient populations that may be treated effectively by immunotherapies. Also provided are therapies that may be used in combination of immune checkpoint therapy (ICB) to increase the effectiveness of the therapy. Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of treating glioblastoma in a subject comprising administering to the subject immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy after the subject has been determined to have low expression of CD73 in a biological sample from the subject.

The invention provides a method of investigating the spatial organisation of proteins in or on cells, and the use of that spatial organisation information to inform decisions about medical interventions, especially in relation to cancer treatments including CAR-T therapy. The method involves detecting one or more species of proteins on each of the plurality of cells; obtaining respective spatial coordinates of the detected proteins within the plurality of cells; detecting boundaries of the plurality of cells; and constructing a data vector based on the obtained spatial coordinates and the detected boundaries.

Embodiments concern methods and composition related to anergic T-cells in patients, such as cancer patients.

A method of treating tumors resulting in or from CNS metastasis in a subject is described. The method includes determining if the subject has an increased level of MDM2/MDM4 genes and/or proteins, and/or a decreased level of CDKN2A genes and/or proteins, and treating subjects having an increased level of MDM2/MDM4 genes and/or proteins with a combination of immunotherapy and an MDM2/MDM4 inhibitor, and/or treating subjects identified as having a decreased level of CDKN2A genes and/or proteins with a combination of immunotherapy and a CDK inhibitor.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating cancers using antisense (AS) nucleic acids directed against Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Receptor (IGF-1R). The AS may be administered to the patients systemically, or may be used to produce an autologous cancer cell vaccine. In embodiments, the AS are provided in an implantable irradiated biodiffusion chamber comprising tumor cells and an effective amount of the AS. The chambers are irradiated and implanted in the abdomen of subjects and stimulate an immune response that attacks tumors distally. The compositions and methods disclosed herein may be used to treat many different kinds of cancer, for example glioblastoma.

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel anti-CD147 antibody exhibiting potent antitumor efficacy and having excellent safety. Another object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical product comprising such an antibody. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for treating tumors using the antibody or the pharmaceutical product, for example. The present invention provides a CD147-specific antibody that activates CD147 and exhibits high antitumor efficacy. The present invention provides the anti-CD147 antibody that exhibits high antitumor efficacy independent of effector functions. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising such an anti-CD147 antibody. The present invention provides a method for treating tumors using such an anti-CD147 antibody and/or pharmaceutical composition.

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.