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ArticleNature biomedical engineering2020

A biomaterial-based vaccine eliciting durable tumour-specific responses against acute myeloid leukaemia.

Nisarg J Shah, Alexander J Najibi, Ting-Yu Shih, Angelo S Mao, Azeem Sharda, David T Scadden, David J Mooney

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Article in Nature biomedical engineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nisarg J Shah *John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-5732
Alexander J Najibi *John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7761-392X
Ting-Yu ShihJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Angelo S MaoJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Azeem ShardaDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David T ScaddenDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. david_scadden@harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9821-7133
David J MooneyJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. mooneyd@seas.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6299-1194
Harvard University · US

Funding

Preclinical development of gene-edited human hematopoietic stem cellsU19HL129903 · NHLBI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI NOVAK, RODGER · 2015 to 2019
$11.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS U19 HL129903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a malignancy of haematopoietic origin that has limited therapeutic options. The standard-of-care cytoreductive chemotherapy depletes AML cells to induce remission, but is infrequently curative. An immunosuppressive AML microenvironment in the bone marrow and the paucity of suitable immunotherapy targets limit the induction of effective immune responses. Here, in mouse models of AML, we show that a macroporous-biomaterial vaccine that delivers the cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), the Toll-like-receptor-9 agonist cytosine-guanosine oligodeoxynucleotide and one or multiple leukaemia antigens (in the form of a defined peptide antigen, cell lysates or antigens sourced from AML cells recruited in vivo) induces local immune-cell infiltration and activated dendritic cells, evoking a potent anti-AML response. The biomaterial-based vaccine prevented the engraftment of AML cells when administered as a prophylactic and when combined with chemotherapy, and eradicated established AML even in the absence of a defined vaccine antigen. Biomaterial-based AML vaccination can induce potent immune responses, deplete AML cells and prevent disease relapse.

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AnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsBone MarrowCancer VaccinesDisease Models, AnimalDrug DevelopmentFemaleGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteMice, Inbred C57BLToll-Like Receptor 9Biocompatible MaterialsCancer VaccinesGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorToll-Like Receptor 9

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PMID31937942
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