Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Intratumoral IL-12 delivery empowers CAR-T cell immunotherapy in a pre-clinical model of glioblastoma

  • Giulia Agliardi,
  • Anna Rita Liuzzi,
  • Alastair Hotblack,
  • Donatella De Feo,
  • Nicolás Núñez,
  • Cassandra L. Stowe,
  • Ekaterina Friebel,
  • Francesco Nannini,
  • Lukas Rindlisbacher,
  • Thomas A. Roberts,
  • Rajiv Ramasawmy,
  • Iwan P. Williams,
  • Bernard M. Siow,
  • Mark F. Lythgoe,
  • Tammy L. Kalber,
  • Sergio A. Quezada,
  • Martin A. Pule,
  • Sonia Tugues,
  • Karin Straathof,
  • Burkhard Becher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20599-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Glioblastoma multiform (GBM) is a common and aggressive type of primary brain cancer that currently has no effective therapy. Here, the authors show, using a mouse GBM model and EGFRvIII-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, that Intratumoral injection of interleukin-12 helps condition the microenvironment and promote anti-tumor immunity.