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, Tubingen

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