A PD-1 antibody or a functional fragment thereof, and use of said antibody in the preparation of a medicament for treating tumors are provided.

Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based compositions for activating cellular immune responses are provided. The CNTs function as high surface area scaffolds for the attachment of T cell ligands and/or antigens. The CNT compositions function as artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) or as modular vaccines. The disclosed CNT aAPCs are efficient at activating T cells and may be used to activate T cells ex vivo or in vivo for adoptive or active immunotherapy.

The invention relates to a centrifuge for separating a sample into at least two components, comprising a chamber for receiving a sample to be centrifuged. According to the invention, the centrifuge further comprises a means for controlling the progress of the sample separation is located at the chamber.

The present invention relates to a method for identifying T-cell (or T-cell) receptors chains or parts thereof that mediate an anti-tumor or anti-infection response by identifying amino acid sequences comprising T-cells (or T-cell) receptors chains or parts thereof that are shared between different donors.

Provided are methods and materials for the identification of tumor reactive T cell receptors (TCRs) in samples obtained from a human subject and use of said tumor reactive TCRs for the preparation of engineered T cells for cancer therapy.

The present disclosure provides transmembrane chimeric proteins derived from transposable element (TE)-exon fusion transcripts, as well as nucleic acids, antibodies, CARs, non-HLA restricted TCR and immune cells targeting such chimeric proteins that can be used in cancer therapy.

In one aspect, a method of treating cancer in a mammal is provided. The method comprises administering to the mammal an oncolytic vector that expresses a tumor antigen to which the mammal has a pre-existing immunity. In another aspect, a method of boosting immune response in a mammal having a pre-existing immunity to an antigen is provided comprising intravenous administration to the mammal of a B-cell infecting vector that expresses the antigen.

A method of preparing and using gamma delta T cells in the allogeneic or autologous treatment of subjects suffering from virus infection, fungal infection, protozoal infection and cancer.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing a dendritic cell, a dendritic cell prepared thereby and a use thereof, and more specifically, to a method for preparing a dendritic cell, including: treating a dendritic cell at a maturation stage rather than at an immature stage with an antigen bound to a peptide having a cell membrane permeability to prepare a dendritic cell with improved antigen-presenting ability, a dendritic cell prepared by the method, and an immunotherapeutic agent thereof, a use for anti-tumor vaccines, or a pharmaceutical composition for treating tumors, containing the same.

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.