Noemi Risso
Innovative Cancer Vaccine Platform for Sustained and Localized Delivery of Immunotherapy.
Rel. Valentina Alice Cauda, Alessandro Grattoni. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2024
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Cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy that can generate antigen-specific antitumor immunity to achieve long-term cancer elimination. Conventional cancer vaccines typically require multiple administrations to generate enduring anti-tumor immune responses. Additionally, administering the therapy as a bolus can diminish vaccine efficacy by accelerating its diffusion throughout the body. To address these challenges, we developed the “NanoLymph”, a subcutaneous implantable platform for targeted cancer immune modulation. This is a transcutaneously accessible dual-reservoir system capable of sustained release of immunoadjuvants from a drug reservoir into a cell reservoir through a nanoporous membrane. The Nanolymph promotes in situ immune cell recruitment, homing and activation through an antigen-loaded collagen scaffold embedded within the cell reservoir.
In this study, we used CCL21, a chemokine that recruits CD8+ T cells and dendritic cells (DCs), along with ovalbumin (OVA) to assess antigen-specific immune response against OVA-expressing B16 tumor model
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