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ReviewMolecular cancer2021

mRNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy.

Lei Miao, Yu Zhang, Leaf Huang

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Molecular cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07053072 (A Prospective,Single Arm Clinicial Trial Evaluating PD-1 mRNA LNP Vaccine for the Treatment of Advanced Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma Failing Standard Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 501 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
501citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
54.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07053072 phase1recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

A Prospective,Single Arm Clinicial Trial Evaluating PD-1 mRNA LNP Vaccine for the Treatment of Advanced Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma Failing Standard Therapy

TypeinterventionalSponsorWest China HospitalRan2025 to 2026Enrolled9ConditionsLiver CancerArmsLow Dose PD-1 mRNA LNP Vaccine, High dose PD-1 mRNA LNP vaccines
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

501 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 866 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. IVT-free, chemically synthesized protein-encoding RNA oligonucleotides for rapid production of personalized cancer vaccines.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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441 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lei MiaoDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Yu ZhangDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Leaf HuangDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. leafh@email.unc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9421-8283
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Small Animal Imaging CoreU54CA198999 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, ZIBO · 2015 to 2019
$11.9M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA198999NIH HHS CA198999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

mRNA vaccines have become a promising platform for cancer immunotherapy. During vaccination, naked or vehicle loaded mRNA vaccines efficiently express tumor antigens in antigen-presenting cells (APCs), facilitate APC activation and innate/adaptive immune stimulation. mRNA cancer vaccine precedes other conventional vaccine platforms due to high potency, safe administration, rapid development potentials, and cost-effective manufacturing. However, mRNA vaccine applications have been limited by instability, innate immunogenicity, and inefficient in vivo delivery. Appropriate mRNA structure modifications (i.e., codon optimizations, nucleotide modifications, self-amplifying mRNAs, etc.) and formulation methods (i.e., lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), polymers, peptides, etc.) have been investigated to overcome these issues. Tuning the administration routes and co-delivery of multiple mRNA vaccines with other immunotherapeutic agents (e.g., checkpoint inhibitors) have further boosted the host anti-tumor immunity and increased the likelihood of tumor cell eradication. With the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of LNP-loaded mRNA vaccines for the prevention of COVID-19 and the promising therapeutic outcomes of mRNA cancer vaccines achieved in several clinical trials against multiple aggressive solid tumors, we envision the rapid advancing of mRNA vaccines for cancer immunotherapy in the near future. This review provides a detailed overview of the recent progress and existing challenges of mRNA cancer vaccines and future considerations of applying mRNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapies.

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AnimalsCancer VaccinesCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesHumansImmunotherapymRNA VaccinesNeoplasmsSARS-CoV-2Vaccines, SyntheticVaccinologyCancer VaccinesCOVID-19 VaccinesmRNA VaccinesVaccines, SyntheticCancer immunotherapyCancer vaccineIonizable lipidsLipid nanoparticles (LNPs)mRNA deliveryPersonalized vaccineSelf-amplifying mRNA (SAM)

Identifiers

PMID33632261
PMCPMC7905014
OpenAlexW3130729977

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