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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2025

Vax-Innate: improving therapeutic cancer vaccines by modulating T cells and the tumour microenvironment.

Faezzah Baharom, Dalton Hermans, Lélia Delamarre, Robert A Seder

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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4 authors.

Faezzah Baharom *Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-3600
Dalton Hermans *Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7913-1198
Lélia DelamarreGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9122-5181
Robert A SederVaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. rseder@mail.nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3133-0849

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cells have a critical role in mediating antitumour immunity. The success of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for cancer treatment highlights how enhancing endogenous T cell responses can mediate tumour regression. However, mortality remains high for many cancers, especially in the metastatic setting. Based on advances in the genetic characterization of tumours and identification of tumour-specific antigens, individualized therapeutic cancer vaccines targeting mutated tumour antigens (neoantigens) are being developed to generate tumour-specific T cells for improved therapeutic responses. Early clinical trials using individualized neoantigen vaccines for patients with advanced disease had limited clinical efficacy despite demonstrated induction of T cell responses. Therefore, enhancing T cell activity by improving the magnitude, quality and breadth of T cell responses following vaccination is one current goal for improving outcome against metastatic tumours. Another major consideration is how T cells can be further optimized to function within the tumour microenvironment (TME). In this Perspective, we focus on neoantigen vaccines and propose a new approach, termed Vax-Innate, in which vaccination through intravenous delivery or in combination with tumour-targeting immune modulators may improve antitumour efficacy by simultaneously increasing the magnitude, quality and breadth of T cells while transforming the TME into a largely immunostimulatory environment for T cells.

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Cancer VaccinesNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmHumansImmunotherapyAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccines

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