Microfluidic technology to isolate tumoricidal T-cells from peripheral blood

微流控技术从外周血中分离杀肿瘤T细胞

• 批准号: 10613173
• 负责人: Venktesh Shirure
• 金额: $ 21.66万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10613173
• 关键词: Acceleration; Adoptive Cell Transfers; Affinity; Autologous; Autologous Tumor Cell; Biomedical Engineering; Blood; Blood Cells; CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes; Cancer Patient; Cell Adhesion; Cell Density; Cell Fraction; Cell Line; Cell Separation; Cells; Cellular immunotherapy; Clinical; Clinical Oncology; Collaborations; Device Designs; Devices; Dimensions; Exposure to; Goals; Heterogeneity; Immunology; Interferon Type II; Knowledge; Leukocytes; Lymphocyte; MART-1 Tumor Antigen; Major Histocompatibility Complex; Malignant Neoplasms; Melanoma Cell; Methods; Microfluidic Microchips; Microfluidics; Molecular; Patients; Peptides; Perfusion; Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte; Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell; Population; Preparation; Process; Publishing; Research Personnel; Sampling; Source; Surface; Surgical Oncology; T cell receptor repertoire sequencing; T cell therapy; T-Lymphocyte; Technology; Tumor Antigens; Tumor-Derived; Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes; anticancer research; antigen-specific T cells; cancer cell; cancer immunotherapy; cost; improved outcome; interest; melanoma; microfluidic technology; neoplastic cell; new technology; novel therapeutic intervention; peripheral blood; personalized medicine; programs; statistics; success; technology development; tumor

PROJECT SUMMARY Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) using ex vivo expanded anti-tumor T-cells has garnered significant interest due to successes in treating melanoma and other cancers. This is a highly personalized therapy, in which autologous T-cells that can target the tumors are required. However, finding cells that specifically target tumors remains a major hurdle for the widespread application of T-cell based ACT therapies. The current methods of lymphocyte enrichment result in modest increases in tumoricidal T-cells with little control over the clonal heterogeneity. A technology that overcomes these challenges would significantly lower the barriers (e.g., reduce cost, reduce off-target effects) for broad dissemination of ACT therapies. The primary goal of this project is to develop a separation technology to enrich a population of lymphocytes with tumoricidal T-cells based on their capacity to recognize autologous tumor antigens. The premise of our microfluidic technology is that tumoricidal T-cells can be separated from a bulk leukocyte population when exposed to tumor-derived peptide-major histocompatibility complex I under optimal flow conditions. The specific aims are to: 1) Develop a microfluidic device to enrich a population of lymphocytes with antigen specific T-cells, and 2) Demonstrate the capacity of the microfluidic platform to enrich patient-derived Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells with tumoricidal T-cells using patient- matched tumor cells. Accomplishing our primary goal will create a potentially disruptive technology that could pave way for wide-spread application of T-cell based ACT therapies, and the agnostic feature (i.e., no a priori knowledge of tumor antigen(s) is required) of the technology would make it broadly applicable for a personalized medicine approach to a range of cancers.

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