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ArticleNature medicine2025

Personalized, autologous neoantigen-specific T cell therapy in metastatic melanoma: a phase 1 trial.

Jessica S W Borgers, Divya Lenkala, Victoria Kohler, Emily K Jackson, Matthijs D Linssen, Sebastian Hymson, Brian McCarthy, Elizabeth O'Reilly Cosgrove, Kristen N Balogh, Ekaterina Esaulova and 26 more

Erratum issuedAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IMulticenter Study
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Article in Nature medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

36 authors.

Jessica S W BorgersDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6478-7821
Divya LenkalaBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Victoria KohlerBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Emily K JacksonBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2972-4139
Matthijs D LinssenBioTherapeutics Unit, Division of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0492-066X
Sebastian HymsonBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-1823-9680
Brian McCarthyBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Elizabeth O'Reilly CosgroveBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kristen N BaloghBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8746-745X
Ekaterina EsaulovaBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kimberly StarrBioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany.
Yvonne WareBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-7911-0403
Sebastian KlobuchDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1364-0763
Tracey SciutoBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Xi ChenBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Gauri MahimkarBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Joong Hyuk F SheenBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1855-0268
Suchitra RameshBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sofie WilgenhofDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3309-4555
Johannes V van ThienenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Karina C ScheinerBioTherapeutics Unit, Division of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Inge JedemaDivision of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9042-6459
Michael RooneyBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jesse Z DongBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
John R SroujiBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Vikram R JunejaBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Christina M ArietaBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Bastiaan NuijenBioTherapeutics Unit, Division of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Claudia GottsteinBioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-1117-8417
Olivia C FinneyBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-9075
Kelledy MansonBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Cynthia M NijenhuisBioTherapeutics Unit, Division of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Richard B GaynorBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Mark DeMarioBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA.
John B HaanenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. j.haanen@nki.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5884-7704
Marit M van BuurenBioNTech US, Cambridge, MA, USA. marit.vanbuuren@biontech.us.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1615-1087

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New treatment approaches are warranted for patients with advanced melanoma refractory to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) or BRAF-targeted therapy. We designed BNT221, a personalized, neoantigen-specific autologous T cell product derived from peripheral blood, and tested this in a 3 + 3 dose-finding study with two dose levels (DLs) in patients with locally advanced or metastatic melanoma, disease progression after ICB, measurable disease (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1) and, where appropriate, BRAF-targeted therapy. Primary and secondary objectives were evaluation of safety, highest tolerated dose and anti-tumor activity. We report here the non-pre-specified, final results of the completed monotherapy arm consisting of nine patients: three at DL1 (1 × 10

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Antigens, NeoplasmMelanomaPrecision MedicineT-LymphocytesAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm MetastasisAntigens, Neoplasm

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PMID39753970
PMCPMC11922764

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