Provided are methods for activating an antigen-presenting cell and eliciting an immune response by inducing an inducible pattern recognition receptor adapter, or adapter fragment, and CD40 activity. Also provided are nucleic acid compositions comprising sequences coding for chimeric proteins that include an inducible CD40 peptide and an inducible pattern recognition receptor adapter or adapter fragment.

Compositions and methods for the therapy and diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), including Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, are disclosed. Illustrative compositions comprise one or more bacterial polypeptides, immunogenic portions thereof, polynucleotides that encode such polypeptides, antigen presenting cell that expresses such polypeptides, and T cells that are specific for cells expressing such polypeptides. The disclosed compositions are useful, for example, in the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of IBD.

Provided are chimeric oncolytic adenoviruses simultaneously expressing IL-12, IFN-?, and CCL5, and an application thereof in tumor treatment. A capsid protein hexon of the oncolytic adenovirus is formed from chimerizing hexon sequences of the two serotype viruses Ad5 and Ad48, and a fiber protein is formed from chimerizing fiber sequences of the two serotype viruses Ad5 and Ad11. The chimeric oncolytic adenovirus can activate intrinsic anti-cancer activity of a variety of viral structural proteins, the ability to infect tumor cells is increased while also ensuring that the virus itself avoids interception from pre-existing neutralizing antibodies and adhesion and uptake of hepatocytes, and an effect of killing cancer cells is enhanced.

The invention provides CARs (CARs) that specifically bind to BCMA (B-Cell Maturation Antigen). The invention further relates to engineered immune cells comprising such CARs, CAR-encoding nucleic acids, and methods of making such CARs, engineered immune cells, and nucleic acids. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these CARs and engineered immune cells for the treatment of a condition associated with malignant cells expressing BCMA (e.g., cancer).

T-cells useful in T-cell immunotherapy comprise a CAR, TCR and/or nucleic acid sequence(s) encoding a CAR and/or a TCR. The T-cells also comprise HP-NAP, an immunological equivalent fragment thereof and/or nucleic acid sequence(s) encoding HAP-NAP and/or an immunological equivalent fragment thereof. The T-cells have improved effects in immunotherapy including improved cytotoxicity, stimulation of chemokine and cytokine secretion, promoting dendritic cell maturation and recruitment and activation of innate immune cells.

The technology described herein is directed to compositions and methods for modifying and controlling the activity of cells by expression of proteins from self-amplifying RNA (saRNA). Also described herein are compositions and methods for modifying and controlling the activity of cells by expression of proteins from self-amplifying RNA that is substituted with chemically modified nucleotides.

The present application provides cord blood-derived natural killer (CB-NK) cells engineered to express chimeric receptors that target ADGRE2. Pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods of treating cancer are also provided.

The invention provides CARs (CARs) that specifically bind to BCMA (B-Cell Maturation Antigen). The invention further relates to engineered immune cells comprising such CARs, CAR-encoding nucleic acids, and methods of making such CARs, engineered immune cells, and nucleic acids. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these CARs and engineered immune cells for the treatment of a condition associated with malignant cells expressing BCMA (e.g., cancer).

Methods are provided for generating DLL4-expressing immune cells. The invention also includes cellular compositions of dendritic and T cells produced by these methods. The immune cells of the invention can be used widely as components in many diagnostic and therapeutic systems, including improved vaccines to reduce the risk of graft versus host disease.

A vaccine composition is described that is composed of 3 cells lines, the U266, H929, and K562. Methods are described for using the vaccine composition in methods of immunizing against plasma cell disorders, including multiple myeloma and related disorders.