The present invention relates to antibodies specifically binding CCL17, polynucleotides encoding the antibodies or fragments, and methods of making and using the foregoing.

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.

Disclosed are compositions, methods, and kits for treating a cancer or pre-cancer. In particular, the invention generally relates to cancer vaccines as well as methods of delivering the vaccines. Combination treatments including the vaccines in combination with immunomodulatory agents are also contemplated.

A method for overcoming mild to moderate immune suppression includes the steps of inducing production of naive T-cells and restoring T-cell immunity. A method of vaccine immunotherapy includes the steps of inducing production of naive T-cells and exposing the naive T-cells to endogenous or exogenous antigens at an appropriate site. Additionally, a method for unblocking immunization at a regional lymph node includes the steps of promoting differentiation and maturation of immature dendritic cells at a regional lymph node and allowing presentation of processed peptides by resulting mature dendritic cells, thus, for example, exposing tumor peptides to T-cells to gain immunization of the T-cells. Further, a method of treating cancer and other persistent lesions includes the steps of administering an effective amount of a natural cytokine mixture as an adjuvant to endogenous or exogenous administered antigen to the cancer or other persistent lesions.

Methods and compositions for treating central nervous system diseases and disorders are disclosed.

A method of treating a patient who has brain cancer includes administering to said patient a composition containing a population of activated T cells that selectively recognize cells in the patient that aberrantly express a peptide. A pharmaceutical composition contains activated T cells that selectively recognize cells in a patient that aberrantly express a peptide, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, in which the T cells bind to the peptide in a complex with an MHC class I molecule, and the composition is for treating the patient who has brain cancer. A method of treating a patient who has brain cancer includes administering to said patient a composition comprising a peptide in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, thereby inducing a T-cell response to the brain cancer.

The invention relates to constructs, cells and methods for modulating the immune system that optimize presentation of CD4 and CD8 epitopes to antigen-presenting cells and transfection into cells. Epitopes to either self antigens or non-self antigens can be used to optimize either a tolerance or immunogenicity to those epitopes, respectively. Certain new constructs encode one or more dominant, disease-driving epitopes (CD4) targeted for MHCII processing within the endosomes of a cell and one or more epitopes (CD8) targeted for MHCI processing within the cytosol of the cell, to produce the maximum antigen/epitope presentation in the immune system, and further include an MHCII activator sequence. Alternatively, the new constructs encode CD4 and CD8 epitopes operably linked to a secretion signal.

The present invention relates to new immunocytokines which are useful for the treatment of cancer. These fusion proteins comprise (i) an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof fused to (ii) a cleavable peptide linker, and (iii) cytokine, or functional fragments thereof. Methods of treatment using these immunocytokines are also disclosed.

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for boosting, augmenting or enhancing the efficacy of the adoptive cellular immunotherapy by using modified T cells expressing an antigen binding protein in conjunction with modified cells (such as hematopoietic progenitor cells, modified human immune system cells or a combination thereof) expressing the antigen specifically bound by the antigen binding protein of the modified T cells.

The present invention provides vaccine compositions and methods of producing such compositions. Other embodiments of the invention include methods of treating a pathogen infection, methods of vaccinating a subject against a pathogen infection, and methods for treating an antibiotic-resistance bacterial infection in a subject in need thereof. In further embodiments, the invention includes methods of decreasing the level of a pathogen in a subject having a pathogen infection, methods of increasing the surviving rate of a subject having a pathogen infection, methods of reducing the level of pain associated with a pathogen infection, and methods of reducing the level of distress associated with a pathogen infection in a subject in need thereof. Novel scaffold compositions and opsonin-bound or lectin-bound pathogen compositions, and uses thereof, are also provided herein.