Described herein are immune cells comprising: a T-cell receptor (TCR) and a chimeric stimulating receptor (CSR) that comprises (i) a ligand-binding module that is capable of binding or interacting with a target ligand; (ii) a transmembrane domain; and (iii) a CD30 costimulatory domain, in which the CSR in the immune cells lacks a functional primary signaling domain. Also provided herein are methods of using the same or components thereof (e.g., the CSR) for therapeutic treatment of cancers (e.g., solid tumor cancers).

The present invention relates to a method and system for identifying and validating pairs of candidate antigens and their cognate antigen-specific T lymphocytes that are useful for validating the immunogenic activity of paired antigen and TCR sequences. The method includes, inter alia, steps of determining one or more splice variants that are more highly transcribed in a sample obtained e from cohort of patients compared to a reference sample, determining one or more amino acid sequences that occur in an amino acid translation of said one or more splice variants but not in the corresponding splice variant in the reference sample, and predicting HLA binding of the amino acid sequences in order to identify candidate shared antigen. The present invention also relates to methods of characterising and/or treating a medical condition, including cancer.

Materials and methods for producing genome-edited cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) construct on the cell surface, and materials and methods for genome editing to modulate the expression, function, or activity of one or more immuno-oncology related genes in a cell, and materials and methods for treating a patient using the genome-edited engineered cells.

Materials and methods for producing genome-edited cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) construct on the cell surface, and materials and methods for genome editing to modulate the expression, function, or activity of one or more immuno-oncology related genes in a cell, and materials and methods for treating a patient using the genome-edited engineered cells.

The invention provides inter alia an engineered T cell, wherein said T cell is engineered to express a T cell receptor (TCR) or an antibody-based receptor that binds to a T cell epitope of human ropporin-1A (ROPN1) or human ropporin-1B (ROPN1B); wherein said T cell epitope is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:43, SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:56 and SEQ ID NO:24.

Materials and methods for producing genome-edited cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) construct on the cell surface, and materials and methods for genome editing to modulate the expression, function, or activity of one or more immuno-oncology related genes in a cell, and materials and methods for treating a patient using the genome-edited engineered cells.

Materials and methods for producing genome-edited cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) construct on the cell surface, and materials and methods for genome editing to modulate the expression, function, or activity of one or more immuno-oncology related genes in a cell, and materials and methods for treating a patient using the genome-edited engineered cells.

The present disclosure relates to artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPCs), in particular engineered erythroid cells and enucleated cells (e.g. enucleated erythroid cells and platelets), that are engineered to activate or suppress T cells.

The present invention relates to the filed of immunotherapy, in particular, of lymphoproliferative disorders associated with abnormal proliferation of HLA-DR+ cells, e.g., malignancies of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions useful for, e.g., adoptive T cell therapy or T cell receptor (TCR) gene therapy or such disorders, as well as novel expression vectors, host cells and y8 (gamma/delta) TCR constructs. In particular, the inventors have identified ?? (gamma/delta) TCR constructs that can specifically bind to HLA-DR. In addition to host cells engineered to express such constructs that can be used for therapeutic as well as diagnostic purposes, soluble TCR constructs are provided, which can, e.g., be used in a method of detecting HLA-DR+ cells, e.g., in vitro as well as bispecific constructs that can be therapeutically used.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods of uses of a monoallelic MHC-expressing cell line, as well as method of identifying a neoepitope-MHIC binding pair and methods of treating a subject having a cancer or tumor expressing a neoantigen and a MHC allele.