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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

Therapeutic potential of targeting LAG-3 in cancer.

Diwakar Davar, Ana Carrizosa Anderson, Ivan Diaz-Padilla

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Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Diwakar DavarDepartment of Medicine, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA davard@upmc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8055
Ana Carrizosa AndersonHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-2932
Ivan Diaz-PadillaOncology Global Clinical Development, GSK, Baar, Switzerland.

Funding

Understanding and Overcoming T cell Immunosuppression in GlioblastomaP01CA236749 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI E. Antonio Chiocca · 2020 to 2026
$19.5M
Project 5: Microenvironment manipulation using anti-angiogenics to improve immunotherapy in melanomaP50CA254865 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WANG, HONG · 2021 to 2025
$10.4M
Proteogenomic studies to understand mechanisms and drivers of resistance to immunotherapiesU01CA271407 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER · PI Diwakar Davar, AMANDA G PAULOVICH · 2022 to 2026
$5.6M
Role of Tim-3 in determining T cell immunityR01CA187975 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ANDERSON, ANA C · 2015 to 2025
$3.9M
Mouse models of Kras-mutant colorectal cancerR01CA246653 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI HAIGIS, KEVIN · 2020 to 2024
$3.1M
Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy with Intratumoral CPG and PD-1 Blockade in MelanomaR01CA257265 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DAVAR, DIWAKAR, ZAROUR, HASSANE M · 2021 to 2025
$2.6M
Role of metabolic crosstalk in determining immunity during tumor progressionR01CA282794 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ANA C ANDERSON, VIJAY K. KUCHROO · 2023 to 2026
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA236749NCI NIH HHS P50 CA254865NCI NIH HHS R01 CA187975NCI NIH HHS R01 CA246653NCI NIH HHS R01 CA257265NCI NIH HHS R01 CA282794NCI NIH HHS U01 CA271407
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting negative regulatory checkpoints including programmed death-1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 have produced significant improvements in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival in multiple solid tumors. Lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG-3) is an inhibitory receptor that is highly expressed by exhausted T cells. Dual blockade of LAG-3 and PD-1 with monoclonal antibodies relatlimab and nivolumab has improved PFS in advanced melanoma, leading to Food and Drug Administration approval for this indication. Concurrently, enthusiasm for targeting LAG-3 has been tempered by negative results in multiple indications, although novel approaches including LAG-3-directed bispecifics tebotelimab continue to demonstrate promise. In this review, we discuss the current understanding of LAG-3 in regulating antitumor immunity and the ongoing state of clinical development of LAG-3-directed agents in cancer.

Indexed as

Antigens, CDImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsHumansLymphocyte Activation Gene 3 ProteinAntigens, CDImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLag3 protein, humanLymphocyte Activation Gene 3 Proteinimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmunotherapymonoclonal antibody

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PMID40633935
PMCPMC12243602

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