Valsamo Anagnostou

Oct 9, 2024 | nature.com | Ferdinandos Skoulidis |Ana Cobo |Meagan Montesion |Yi Yu |Natalie I. Vokes |Joseph Murray | +44 more

AbstractFor patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), dual immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) with CTLA4 inhibitors and PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors (hereafter, PD-(L)1 inhibitors) is associated with higher rates of anti-tumour activity and immune-related toxicities, when compared with treatment with PD-(L)1 inhibitors alone. However, there are currently no validated biomarkers to identify which patients will benefit from dual ICB1,2.

Mar 19, 2024 | nature.com | Ronan Kelly |Blair V. Landon |Ali Zaidi |Nisha Rao |Kellie N. Smith |Drew Pardoll | +2 more

AbstractGastroesophageal cancer dynamics and drivers of clinical responses with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) remain poorly understood. Potential synergistic activity of dual programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) inhibition may help improve immunotherapy responses for these tumors.

Oct 9, 2023 | nature.com | Valsamo Anagnostou |Mark Sausen

AbstractCirculating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has shown promise in capturing primary resistance to immunotherapy. BR.36 is a multi-center, randomized, ctDNA-directed, phase 2 trial of molecular response-adaptive immuno-chemotherapy for patients with lung cancer. In the first of two independent stages, 50 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer received pembrolizumab as standard of care.

Jul 20, 2023 | nature.com | Yunxiao Yang |Xiaoshan M. Shao |Kellie N. Smith |Valsamo Anagnostou

AbstractIdentifying neoepitopes that elicit an adaptive immune response is a major bottleneck to developing personalized cancer vaccines. Experimental validation of candidate neoepitopes is extremely resource intensive and the vast majority of candidates are non-immunogenic, creating a needle-in-a-haystack problem.