The present invention relates to a composition for diagnosing diseases associated with cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) overexpression and a screening method therefor and, more particularly, to: a composition for diagnosing diseases associated with COX2 overexpression, containing a compound with a structural feature of exhibiting strong binding activity to a COX2 protein; and a screening method therefor.

The disclosure relates to optimized cancer vaccines, as well as methods of making the vaccines, using the vaccines, and compositions comprising the vaccines. The cancer vaccines comprise personalized cancer antigens or portions of cancer hotspot antigens. Additionally, the disclosure relates to a computerized system for selecting nucleic acids to include in an optimized cancer vaccine.

Disclosed are a biomarker, method and assay kit for identifying and screening for urothelial carcinoma (UC) in a subject in need.

The present disclosure relates to anti-glyco-MUC1 antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to a cancer-specific glycosylation variant of MUC1 and related fusion proteins and antibody-drug conjugates, as well as nucleic acids encoding such biomolecules. The present disclosure further relates to use of the antibodies, antigen-binding fragments, fusion proteins, antibody-drug conjugates and nucleic acids for cancer therapy.

The invention relates to diagnosis, detection, screening, identifying and predicting methods. In various embodiments, methods of the invention include diagnosis, detection, or screening for a hyperproliferative disorder (e.g., a tumor, cancer or neoplasia) in the subject; identifying a subject that will or is likely to respond to a therapy for a hyperproliferative disorder (e.g., a tumor, cancer or neoplasia); and predicting therapeutic efficacy of a hyperproliferative disorder (e.g., a tumor, cancer or neoplasia) treatment in a subject.

Methods and compositions for diagnosing the presence of a cancer cell in an individual are provided. Methods and compositions for identifying a tumor-specific signature in an individual having cancer are also provided. Methods and compositions for diagnosing the presence of an infectious agent in an individual and/or for identifying an infectious agent-specific signature in an infected individual are provided. Methods and compositions for diagnosing the presence of a disease in an individual are also provided. Methods and compositions for identifying a disease-specific signature in an individual having the disease are also provided.

The present invention is in the field of oncology, and more particularly of cancer stem cells. It relates to a method for producing cancer stem cells based on overexpression of Δ133p53β isoform, Δ133p53γ isoform, or both Δ133p53β and Δ133p53γ isoforms; a method for predicting the risk that treatment with a chemotherapeutic anti-cancer agent induces cancer stem cells in a subject suffering from cancer from a cancer sample of said subject, based on detection of an increase in Δ133p53β isoform, Δ133p53γ isoform, or both Δ133p53β and Δ133p53γ isoforms following chemotherapeutic anti-cancer treatment; to therapeutic uses of a combination of chemotherapeutic anti-cancer agent and an agent reducing Δ133p53β isoform, Δ133p53γ isoform, or both Δ133p53β and Δ133p53γ isoforms expression; and also to screening methods for anti-cancer stem cells agents.

The invention disclosed herein describes biomarkers useful for prognosis, selection and monitoring of oncolytic virus therapy for patients with various types of cancer. In particular, the present invention provides identification of proteins whose expression patterns are strongly predictive of the outcome of oncolytic virus therapy in a patient with cancer. The present invention provides a method for identifying and selecting cancer patients who are likely to be non-responsive to onocolytic virus therapy. These patients can be co-administered an agent that stimulates a cell-mediated immune response in the patient with the oncolytic virus or can be administered a therapy other than oncolytic virus therapy.

The present Inventors demonstrated that the RelB subunit of NFκB plays a crucial role in promoting cell migration. More precisely, they identified that this pro-migratory activity is mediated by the activation of the NFκB pathway through RelB phosphorylation at serine 472. In a first aspect, the present invention proposes to monitor the activation of the NFκB pathway by following the phosphorylation status of said serine. Also, the present invention discloses methods and kits for prognosing the evolution of a disease involving cell migration in a subject—treated or not—suffering thereof, based on the detection of said RelB-S472 phosphorylation.

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.