ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
New frontiers in advanced glycotherapy for cancer
Cancer remains a major cause of death despite phenomenal progress in current immunotherapy, that aims to boost host immune responses of antibodies and T cells, and their ability to distinguish cancer from normal cells. The three main cancer immunotherapies are therapeutic cancer vaccines, cellular therapeutics and immune checkpoint blockade, but those have only limited success mainly due to difficulties in identifying target antigens. Carbohydrate chains (glycans) ubiquitously occupy surface of cells, but on cancer they are aberrantly-expressed, in particular with a wide collection of sialic acid-glycans. Their antigenic complexity arise by sialic acid structure modification, linkages,…
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