The Development of Novel Cancer Immunotherapies and Target Antigens

Dear Colleagues,

A wide variety of solid tumors still lack an effective therapy. Unfortunately, complete surgical resection often fails to completely eliminate the tumor, leading to the recurrence of cancer and resistance to current therapies. This Special Issue aims to address new immunotherapy strategies along with a description of the immunological microenvironment of tumors, which are difficult to manage clinically. Advances in the design of new strategies against cancer such as immunotherapy, neoantigen vaccines and novel immunomodulators will be evaluated. Furthermore, new immunotherapy strategies may be key to improving current immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies to allow for overcoming the barriers intrinsic to the tumor microenvironment and rethinking the next steps in the evolution of cancer immunotherapy.

Dr. Ricardo Gargini
Dr. Marina I. Garin
Guest Editors

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• cancer immunotherapy
• immune checkpoint blockade, ICB
• tumor microenvironment
• immunomodulators
• new immune checkpoint molecules
• cancer vaccines
• novel vaccine platforms
• cell-based vaccines
• virus-based vaccines
• peptide-based vaccines
• nucleic-acid-based vaccines