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Bcl-xL targeting eliminates ageing tumor-promoting neutrophils and inhibits lung tumor growth

Freddy Radtke, Nadine Fournier, Etienne Meylan, Justine Pascual, Anita Bodac, Amber Dawn Bowler, Vincent Roh

Elevated peripheral blood and tumor-infiltrating neutrophils are often associated with a poor patient prognosis. However, therapeutic strategies to target these cells are difficult to implement due to the life-threatening risk of neutropenia. In a genetica ...

Springernature2024

Development of cysteine cathepsin inhibitors combined with cell type-specific delivery for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma and solid tumors

Aaron Simone Petruzzella

Cysteine cathepsins proteases are enzymes that play essential physiological roles, but their activity is also associated to different aspects of cancer progression and to the development of other diseases. Therefore, cysteine cathepsins are relevant and pr ...

EPFL2024

Porphyrin metalla-assemblies coupled to cellulose nanocrystals for PDT and imaging applications

Georges Wagnières

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an interesting and promising approach to tackle a broad spectrum of cancer. With the combination of a photosensitizer, light and oxygen, PDT achieves a unique selectivity by the production of localized reactive oxygen species ...

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD2023

Engineering Innate and Adaptive Immunity for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Min Gao

Cancer immunotherapy has become an attractive strategy among different therapeutic modalities over the past few years and has showed great success in the clinic. However, there are many outstanding challenges hindering the current immunotherapies. In my Ph ...

EPFL2023

Countering T cell exhaustion and senescence for enhanced adoptive T cell therapies against solid tumors

Yang Zhao

CAR-T cell therapy has shown remarkable success in treating hematopoietic malignancies, but its efficacy in solid tumors is limited by T cell dysfunction, including exhaustion and senescence. In this study, we designed metabolically armored CAR-T cells to ...

EPFL2023

Engineering T Cell Trafficking and Function for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy

Yuqing Xie

In the past decades, breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy have led to unprecedented clinical responses in patients with advanced-stage cancers that would otherwise be fatal. However, treatment of many solid organ malignancies with highly immunosuppressive ...

EPFL2022

Aberrant hyperexpression of the RNA binding protein FMRP in tumors mediates immune evasion

Nadine Fournier, Douglas Hanahan, Krisztian Homicsko, Mohammad Sadegh Saghafinia, Dalya Ataca, Qiqun Zeng, Mélanie Louise Tichet, Yuqing Xie, Agnieszka Alicja Chryplewicz, Fleuriane Marie Tryskele Laurene Gallean, Jeremy Gilles Louis Guillot, Simge Yücel, Lucine Christe, Peng Zhang, Inti Zlobec

Many human cancers manifest the capability to circumvent attack by the adaptive immune system. In this work, we identified a component of immune evasion that involves frequent up-regulation of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) in solid tumors. FM ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Colon tumour cell death causes mTOR dependence by paracrine P2X4 stimulation

Andrea Ablasser

Solid cancers exhibit a dynamic balance between cell death and proliferation ensuring continuous tumour maintenance and growth(1,2). Increasing evidence links enhanced cancer cell apoptosis to paracrine activation of cells in the tumour microenvironment in ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Cell-autonomous inflammation of BRCA1-deficient ovarian cancers drives both tumor-intrinsic immunoreactivity and immune resistance via STING

Christian Iseli, Julien Dorier, Mauro Delorenzi, Alizée Jéléna Grimm, Marco Mina, George Coukos, Alexandre Harari, Giovanni Ciriello

In this study, we investigate mechanisms leading to inflammation and immunoreactivity in ovarian tumors with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). BRCA1 loss is found to lead to transcriptional reprogramming in tumor cells and cell-intrinsic inflammat ...

2021

Reprogramming G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structure, Function And Signaling By Computational Design

Dániel Kéri

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are 7-transmembrane alpha-helical integral membrane proteins on which cells heavily rely to receive information regarding their external environment. These receptors are able to transfer information to intracellular down ...

EPFL2021

An autonomous microfluidic device for identification and analysis of individual clinically-relevant mammalian cells

Fabien Louis Claude Robert Jammes

Cancer represents one of the major public health challenges worldwide, representing more than 25% of all deaths in the European Union in 2014. It affects a large and growing part of the general population, with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimatin ...

EPFL2021

Combined deletion of Glut1 and Glut3 impairs lung adenocarcinoma growth

Bernard Lanz, Graham Knott, Rolf Gruetter, Nadine Fournier, Caroline Anne-Lyse Contat, Mario Gaetano Lepore, Etienne Meylan, Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Justine Pascual, Louise Helene Soegaard Jensen, Anouk Rossier, Pierre-Benoit Bernard Ancey, Silvia Sabatino, Inti Zlobec

Glucose utilization increases in tumors, a metabolic process that is observed clinically by F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-18-FDG-PET). However, is increased glucose uptake important for tumor cells, and which transporters are impl ...

2020

A novel culture method that sustains ER alpha signaling in human breast cancer tissue microstructures

Cathrin Brisken, Georgios Sflomos

Background Estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) signaling is a defining and driving event in most breast cancers; ER alpha is detected in malignant epithelial cells of 75% of all breast cancers (classified as ER-positive breast cancer) and, in these cases, E ...

2020

Vascular-targeted low dose photodynamic therapy stabilizes tumor vessels by modulating pericyte contractility

Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

Vascular-targeted low-dose photodynamic therapy (L-PDT) was shown to improve chemotherapy distribution in malignant pleural tumors such as malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). However, the mechanisms triggered by L-PDT on the tumor vasculature are still d ...

WILEY2019

Functionalization of second harmonic generation nanoparticles for theranostic applications

Jérémy Vuilleumier

Nowadays, cancer is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. The actual medical tools to detect cancer at early stage suffer to their low sensitivity. The design of multimodal nanodevices for in vivo imaging offers the perspective of canc ...

EPFL2019

A structure-based mechanism of cisplatin resistance mediated by glutathione transferase P1-1

Paul Joseph Dyson, Wee Han Ang, Laure Menin

Cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP)] is one of the most successful anticancer agents effective against a wide range of solid tumors. However, its use is restricted by side effects and/or by intrinsic or acquired drug resistance. Here, we ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Chemokine profiling in serum from patients with ovarian cancer reveals candidate biomarkers for recurrence and immune infiltration

Gianrocco Lazzari, Agata Mlynska

The management of advanced ovarian cancer is challenging due to the high frequency of recurrence, often associated with the development of resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy. Molecular analyses revealed the complexity of ovarian cancer with particul ...

SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD2019

Type I interferon/IRF7 axis instigates chemotherapy-induced immunological dormancy in breast cancer

Mauro Delorenzi, Thibaut François Hugo Richard, Yu-Ting Huang

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapies provide survival benefits to breast cancer patients, in particular in estrogen receptor negative (ER-) cancers, by reducing rates of recurrences. It is assumed that the benefits of (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy are due ...

Springer2019

Microfluidics-assisted multiplexed biomarker detection for in situ mapping of immune cells in tumor sections

Martinus Gijs, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Daniel Migliozzi, Benjamin Pelz

Because of the close interaction between tumors and the immune system, immunotherapies are nowadays considered as the most promising treatment against cancer. In order to define the diagnosis and the subsequent therapy, crucial information about the immune ...

2019

Lausanne checklist for safe stereotactic radiosurgery

Constantin Tuleasca

Introduction Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is increasingly used as a minimally invasive alternative in many neurosurgical conditions, including benign and malignant tumors, vascular malformations, and functional procedures. As for any surgical procedure, ...

2019