This invention relates to the field of therapeutics. Most specifically, the invention provides methods of generating conditionally expressing vectors for one or more immuunomodulators under the control of a gene expression modulation system in the presence of activating ligand and uses for therapeutic purposes in animals. These vector may be provided to treat a variety of disorders, e.g., neoplastic disorders, through direct injection or through in vitro engineered cells, such as dendritic cells.

A cancer vaccine composition for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*0206-positive persons, comprising a protein product of the tumor suppressor gene WT1 or a partial peptide thereof.

Devices, systems, and methods can be used for the automated production of dendritic cells (DC) from dendritic cell progenitors, such as monocytes obtained from peripheral blood. The invention makes it possible to obtain sufficient quantities of a subject's own DC for use in preparing and characterizing vaccines, for activating and characterizing the activation state of the subject's immune response, and to aid in preventing and/or treating cancer or infectious disease.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional in vitro alveolar lung model comprising essentially the four cells types as follows: alveolar type II epithelial cells able to secrete (lung laying) surfactant, endothelial cells which forms the inner lining of capillaries providing a permeable barrier, dendritic-like cells, such as non-differentiated THP-1, linking innate and adaptive immunity and macrophage-like cells, able to participate to defense mechanisms by ingesting foreign materials by phagocytosis. The invention also relates to a process for preparing said model, and its use for assessing the irritation potential or toxicity of inhalable products such as particles or molecules on the alveolar barrier of lungs, and also for determining and/or predicting the sensitizing effects of inhalable products such as particles or molecules on the alveolar barrier of lungs.

Disclosed herein are methods, systems and devices to model adaptive immune responses and develop and/or test improved antibodies, vaccines, and other therapeutic agents. The adaptive immune responses can be modeled using lymphoid tissue derived from a subject.

The present disclosure relates generally to compositions for inducing an immunosuppressive phenotype in an antigen presenting cell of the immune system via ligands that activate CD1d signaling. Uses thereof in a therapeutic protocol for treating or preventing conditions associated with aberrant immune system activation, such as autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, allergy and transplant rejection are detailed.

Provided methods of obtaining a plurality of T cell receptors specifically recognizing a target tumor antigen peptide from an individual that has clinically benefitted from an immunotherapy, such as Multiple Antigen Specific Cell Therapy. Also provided tumor-specific TCRs, engineered immune cells expressing the TCRs and methods of treating a disease using the engineered immune cells.

The antigen-presenting cell loaded with the cancer-specific tumor antigen epitope provided in the present invention, that is, a dendritic cell enables rapid and effective induction of differentiation and proliferation of cancer antigen-specific T cells, preferably memory T cells, and the memory T cells thus activated can treat a cancerous or neoplastic condition or prevent recurrence, progression, or metastasis of cancer while avoiding the defense mechanism of cancer cells.

The present disclosure provides the manufacturing of a monocyte that serves as a raw material for a dendritic cell for use in the manufacture of a therapeutic drug for adult T-cell leukemia and the like. The present disclosure provides: a method of producing a monocyte preparation from a blood preparation, the method comprising the step of obtaining a blood preparation from a subject, and the step of enriching the monocyte based on the specific gravity and cell size in the blood preparation; a monocyte preparation manufactured by the method; a dendritic cell induced from the monocyte preparation; and a product for regenerative medicine or the like. The present disclosure also provides treatment of an adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) patient.

The present invention relates to a method for providing information for cancer diagnosis or prognosis prediction by measuring the expression level of TIM-3 in CD11b+ cells.

In addition, the present invention relates to a composition for cancer diagnosis or prognosis prediction comprising an agent for measuring the expression level of TIM-3 in CD11b+ cells or uses thereof.

Since glial TIM-3 responds positively and uniquely to brain tumors and has specific intracellular and intercellular immune modulatory roles that may differ from TIM-3 in brain tumor microenvironment T cells, it can be effectively used in a composition or a method for providing information for cancer diagnosis or prognosis prediction.