Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Artificially cloaked viral nanovaccine for cancer immunotherapy

  • Manlio Fusciello,
  • Flavia Fontana,
  • Siri Tähtinen,
  • Cristian Capasso,
  • Sara Feola,
  • Beatriz Martins,
  • Jacopo Chiaro,
  • Karita Peltonen,
  • Leena Ylösmäki,
  • Erkko Ylösmäki,
  • Firas Hamdan,
  • Otto K. Kari,
  • Joseph Ndika,
  • Harri Alenius,
  • Arto Urtti,
  • Jouni T. Hirvonen,
  • Hélder A. Santos,
  • Vincenzo Cerullo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13744-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Cancer therapy using oncolytic virus has shown pre-clinical and clinical efficacy. Here, the authors report ExtraCRAd, an oncolytic virus cloaked with tumour cell membrane and report its therapeutic effects in vitro and in vivo in multiple mouse tumour models.