The present disclosure provides immunomodulatory fusion proteins comprising a collagen-binding domain operably linked to an immunomodulatory domain. The disclosure also features compositions and methods of using the same, for example, to treat cancer.

The present invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising an extracellular target-binding domain comprising a B7-H3 binding moiety. The present invention further provides polynucleotides and recombinant vectors encoding such CARs. The present invention further provides isolated host cells and methods for preparing isolated host cells expressing the CARs. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the isolated host cells and methods for treating a tumor using the pharmaceutical compositions.

The present disclosure relates to a composition for enhancing an immune response using the activating function of dendritic cells of a stromal vascular fraction isolated from adipose tissue, and in particular, a composition for enhancing an immune response for anti-tumor use.

The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of a cancer associated antigen as described herein. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to a cancer associated antigen as described herein, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the CARs of the present invention. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises an antigen binding domain that binds to a cancer associated antigen as described herein.

Disclosed are recombinant bacteriophage constructs and related exogenous peptide sequences for generating immune responses against CD47. The disclosed recombinant phage constructs bind to antibodies against CD47 and can be administered to an animal to generate an immune response against CD47, including generating anti-CD47 antibodies. The disclosed recombinant phage may comprise an amino acid sequence of CD47, epitopic fragments, variants, or functional mimics thereof. Also disclosed are methods for making and selecting such recombinant phage constructs and compositions that comprise such constructs (e.g., compositions for inducing an immune response against CD47 including pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions used as vaccines). Also disclosed are recombinant polynucleotides comprising genomic nucleic acid of the recombinant phage constructs disclosed herein.

The invention also relates to novel bispecific antibodies carrying a different specificity for each binding site of the immunoglobulin molecule, where one of the binding sites is specific for CD47 and the second is specific for mesothelin (MSLN).

The present invention provides compositions comprising an anti-CD7 chimeric activating receptor (CAR) and an anti-CD7 protein expression blocker, and methods of using such compositions in cancer therapy.

The present invention relates, in part, to methods of treating a cancer in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that modulates one or more biomarkers, such as inhibits one or more biomarkers listed in Table 1 and/or increases one or more biomarkers listed in Table 4, in combination with an immunotherapy.

Provided herein is approach that specifically modulates the activity and/or the number of intratumoral regulatory T (Treg) cells in a subject. Such an approach can be used to reduce the number of intratumoral T regulatory cells in a subject as well as to inhibit tumor growth in a subject having a cancer without eliciting autoimmune responses. The approach relies on the inhibition of CD36 or of PPARbeta.

The presently disclosed subject matter provides for methods and compositions for treating a neoplasia (e.g., multiple myeloma). It relates to chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that specifically target Fc Receptor-like 5 (FcRL5), e.g., domain 9 of FcRL5, and immunoresponsive cells comprising such CARs. The presently disclosed FcRL5-targeted CARs have enhanced immune-activating properties, including anti-tumor activity.