Disclosed herein is a vaccine comprising an antigen and checkpoint inhibitor. Also disclosed herein is a method for enhancing an immune response in a subject. The method may comprise administering the vaccine to the subject in need thereof.

The present invention relates to DNA expression vector or a mixture of DNA expression vectors which encodes at least two CD4 epitopes of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and at least one tumor, viral, bacterial, or parasitic CD8 epitope.

Described herein are compositions of matter and methods for treating cancer. The compositions comprise altered human telomerase polypeptides containing T cell epitopes that have been altered to increase immunogenicity. The methods comprise administration of the polypeptides or nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA encoding the polypeptides, to individuals afflicted with, or at risk of, developing cancer.

Provided herein are non-plasmid derived DNA vaccines comprised solely of enzymatically produced amplicon expression vectors and their method of use to elicit antigen-specific immune responses in a subject. The enzymatically produced amplicon expression vectors may be specifically utilized as a DNA based cancer vaccine to express desired antigens or other immunogenic polypeptides within a subject to induce a specific anti-cancer antigen-specific immune response. The enzymatically produced amplicon expression vectors may also be utilized to express cancer-specific neoantigens.

The present disclosure provides an allogeneic whole cell cancer vaccine platform that includes compositions and methods for treating and preventing cancer. Provided herein are compositions containing a therapeutically effective amount of cells from one or more cancer cell lines, some or all of which are modified to (i) inhibit or reduce expression of one or more immunosuppressive factors by the cells, and/or (ii) express or increase expression of one or more immunostimulatory factors by the cells, and/or (iii) express or increase expression of one or more tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), including TAAs that have been mutated, and which comprise cancer cell lines that natively express a heterogeneity of tumor associated antigens and/or neoantigens. Also provided herein are methods of making the vaccine compositions, methods of preparing, and methods of use thereof.

The present disclosure relates to a new anti-cancer peptide; a vector encoding same; a pharmaceutical composition or immunogenic agent or bispecific or vaccine comprising said anti-cancer peptide; use of said anti-cancer peptide, vector, pharmaceutical composition, immunogenic agent, bispecific or vaccine to treat cancer; a method of treating cancer using said anti-cancer peptide, vector, pharmaceutical composition, immunogenic agent, bispecific or vaccine; and a combination therapeutic for the treatment of cancer comprising said anti-cancer peptide, vector, pharmaceutical composition, immunogenic agent, bispecific or vaccine.

Provided herein are tumor-associated antigen peptides comprising heteroclitic mutations and fusion polypeptides comprising such heteroclitic peptide. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding such peptides and fusion polypeptides, recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains comprising such peptides, fusion polypeptides, or nucleic acids, and cell banks comprising such recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains. Also provided herein are methods of generating such peptides, fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids, and recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains. Also provided are immunogenic compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, and vaccines comprising such peptides, fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids, or recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains. Also provided are methods of inducing an anti-tumor-associated-antigen immune response in a subject, methods of inducing an anti-tumor or anti-cancer immune response in a subject, methods of treating a tumor or cancer in a subject, methods of preventing a tumor or cancer in a subject, and methods of protecting a subject against a tumor or cancer using such peptides, recombinant fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids, recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains, immunogenic compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, or vaccines.

Disclosed are immunotherapeutic compositions and the concurrent use of combinations of such compositions for the improved induction of therapeutic immune responses and/or for the prevention, amelioration and/or treatment of disease, including, but not limited to, cancer and infectious disease.

Materials and methods useful for generating highly mannosylated pseudotyped lentiviral vector particles comprising a Vpx protein are provided.

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