Project overview Joint Funding
AMPLIFY-NEOVAC (Amplifying Neoepitope-specific Vaccine Responses in progressive diffuse gliomas)
Program: CI Funding Line: INNOVATION Project type: IIT/clinical study Entity: brain tumor Status: current
In the multicenter “AMPLIFY NEOVAC” clinical study DKTK investigators explore a combination immunotherapy for treatment of aggressive brain tumors, malignant glioma. The approach is to boost tumor vaccination, previously developed within DKTK, with so-called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), which have shown impressive therapeutic activity for other tumors by unblocking the patient’s own immune system. In this trial the immunotherapy will be initiated before a planned resection. The aim of the study is to assess efficacy and to analyze intratumoral anti-tumor immune effects of the combined vaccination/ICI treatment using detailed molecular and immunological studies. These analyses are expected to reveal important mechanisms of response and resistance to targeted immunotherapy in brain tumors.
Involved Partnersites
Berlin, Dresden, Essen/Dusseldorf, Frankfurt/Mainz, Heidelberg, Munich, TubingenCoordinators
Prof. Dr. Joachim Steinbach
Prof. Dr. Michael Platten
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick
Managing Director of the Department of Neurology at Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD)
Head of the Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology at DKFZ
Spokesperson of the DKTK Translation Center Heidelberg