A61K39/001109

Long-acting VEGF inhibitors for intraocular neovascularization

Compositions and methods for treating a VEGF-related ophthalmic disorder in a subject in need comprising, administering intravitreally to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-VEGF agent, comprising a VEGF binding portion operatively linked to a Fc-IgG, wherein the VEGF binding portion comprises at least one VEGF binding domain that is an IgG-like domain 2 of VEGFR-1.

METHODS OF TREATING CANCER USING TIGIT INHIBITORS AND ANTI-CANCER AGENTS
20230226180 · 2023-07-20 ·

The present disclosure provides methods comprising administering to the individual an effective amount of an agent that decreases or inhibits TIGIT expression and/or activity and an anti-cancer agent and/or an anti-cancer therapy. Further provided are kits comprising an anti-cancer agent, an agent that decreases or inhibits TIGIT expression and/or activity, or both, as well as instructions for use thereof.

Pharmaceutical composition comprising a polymeric carrier cargo complex and at least one protein or peptide antigen

The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition including (e.g. for use as an adjuvant) a polymeric carrier cargo complex, comprising as a carrier a polymeric carrier formed by disulfide-crosslinked cationic components; and as a cargo at least one nucleic acid molecule, and at least one antigen that is selected from an antigen from a pathogen associated with infectious disease; an antigen associated with allergy or allergic disease; an antigen associated with autoimmune disease; or an antigen associated with a cancer or tumour disease, or in each case a fragment, variant and/or derivative of said antigen. The pharmaceutical composition allows for efficient induction of an adaptive immune response directed against said antigen. The present invention furthermore provides kits, as well as the use of the pharmaceutical composition or the kit as a vaccine, particularly in the treatment of infectious diseases, allergies, autoimmune diseases and tumour or cancer diseases.

INTRATUMORAL ADMINISTRATION OF IMMUNE CELLULAR THERAPEUTICS
20220401541 · 2022-12-22 ·

Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions useful for treating cancer in an immunogenic manner so as to elicit local tumor regression, while priming systemic immunity. In one embodiment, there is expansion of tumor-specific immune cells through administration of fibroblasts, either natural or modified in an intratumoral and/or peritumoral manner. In other embodiments, manipulation of a local tumor microenvironment is achieved by injections of immune-modulating fibroblasts to facilitate expansion of immune effector cells, which are subsequently re-stimulated in the periphery by antigenic exposure. In another embodiment, agents are provided that allow for systemic derepression of immunity, while optionally augmenting ability of immune effector cells to expand and kill tumor cells.

Process for the production of a DNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy
11590215 · 2023-02-28 · ·

The present invention relates to a method for producing a DNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy comprising at least the steps of (a) transforming an attenuated strain of Salmonella with at least one DNA molecule comprising at least one expression cassette encoding at least one antigen or at least one fragment thereof; (b) characterizing at least one transformed cell clone obtained in step (a); and (c) selecting at least one of the transformed cell clone(s) characterized in step (b) and further characterizing said at least one selected transformed cell clone. The present invention further relates to a DNA vaccine obtainable by the method according to the present invention.

METHODS OF TREATING CANCER USING TIGIT INHIBITORS AND ANTI-CANCER AGENTS
20220331426 · 2022-10-20 · ·

The present disclosure provides methods comprising administering to the individual an effective amount of an agent that decreases or inhibits TIGIT expression and/or activity and an anti-cancer agent and/or an anti-cancer therapy. Further provided are kits comprising an anti-cancer agent, an agent that decreases or inhibits TIGIT expression and/or activity, or both, as well as instructions for use thereof.

SALMONELLA-BASED DNA VACCINES IN COMBINATION WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC
20230121528 · 2023-04-20 ·

The present invention relates to a Salmonella typhi Ty21a strain comprising a DNA molecule comprising at least one eukaryotic expression cassette encoding at least one tumor antigen, stroma antigen and/or checkpoint inhibitor antigen for the use in the treatment of cancer in a human subject following treatment with an antibiotic, wherein the Salmonellatyphi Ty21a strain is to be administered orally and optionally in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor.

SALMONELLA-BASED DNA VACCINES IN COMBINATION WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC
20230121528 · 2023-04-20 ·

The present invention relates to a Salmonella typhi Ty21a strain comprising a DNA molecule comprising at least one eukaryotic expression cassette encoding at least one tumor antigen, stroma antigen and/or checkpoint inhibitor antigen for the use in the treatment of cancer in a human subject following treatment with an antibiotic, wherein the Salmonellatyphi Ty21a strain is to be administered orally and optionally in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor.

WT1 TARGETING DNA VACCINE FOR COMBINATION THERAPY
20230158133 · 2023-05-25 ·

The present invention relates to an attenuated strain of Salmonella comprising at least one copy of a DNA molecule comprising an expression cassette encoding Wilms' Tumor Protein (WT1), for use in the treatment of cancer, wherein the treatment further comprises the administration of at least one checkpoint inhibitor, particularly selected from at least one antibody against PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4, IDO, OX-40, GITR, TIM-3, and LAG-3. The present invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an attenuated strain of Salmonella comprising at least one copy of a DNA molecule comprising an expression cassette encoding WT1 for use in the treatment of cancer, wherein the treatment further comprises the administration of at least one checkpoint inhibitor, particularly selected from at least one antibody against PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4, IDO, OX-40, GITR, TIM-3, and LAG-3.

VEGFR-2 car immune cells to treat cancers

Compositions and methods for treating cancer in humans are provided using CARs. The invention includes engineered CARs (chimeric receptor antigens) and genetically modified immune cells that express such a CAR with a high affinity for VEGFR. More specifically, the cells are CAR-T cells recognizing VEGFR-2 on solid tumors, uses thereof, compositions thereof and methods of making. The invention includes therapeutic methods to treat VEGFR-2 dependent cancers targeting tumor angiogenesis. A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that binds to VEGFR-2, an epitope or fragment thereof, or a variant thereof.