Our group is interested in the development of novel immune therapy strategies for the treatment and prevention of cancer. Our current activities are focused on MSI colorectal cancer and HPV-induced cancerHPV-assoziierte Tumoren. Based on our research on the pathogenesis of these tumor types, we have initiated two clinical first-in-human trials (FSP vaccine, p16INK4a vaccine) that successfully evaluated vaccines directed against promising novel tumor antigens.
A further central focus of our research is dedicated to the identification of mechanisms responsible for tumor immune evasion and immuno-editing.
Key publications
- Kloor M, von Knebel Doeberitz M. The Immune Biology of Microsatellite-Unstable Cancer. Trends Cancer. 2016 Mar;2(3):121-133. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2016.02.004. Review.
- Reuschenbach M, Pauligk C, Karbach J, Rafiyan MR, Kloor M, Prigge ES, Sauer M, Al-Batran SE, Kaufmann AM, Schneider A, Jäger E, von Knebel Doeberitz M. A phase I/IIa study to test safety and immunogenicity of a p16INK4a peptide vaccine in patients with advanced human papillomavirus-associated cancers. Cancer 2016 May 1;122(9):1425-33.
- Echterdiek F, Janikovits J, Staffa L, Müller M, Lahrmann B, Frühschütz M, Hartog B, Nelius N, Benner A, Tariverdian M, von Knebel Doeberitz M, Grabe N, Kloor M. Low density of FOXP3-positive T cells in normal colonic mucosa is related to the presence of beta2-microglobulin mutations in Lynch syndrome-associated colorectal cancer. OncoImmunology [in press]
- Surmann EM, Voigt AY, Michel S, Bauer K, Reuschenbach M, Ferrone S, von Knebel Doeberitz M, Kloor M. Association of high CD4-positive T cell infiltration with mutations in HLA class II-regulatory genes in microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancer. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy 64, 357-366.
- Reuschenbach M, Dörre J, Waterboer T, Kopitz J, Schneider M, Hoogerbrugge N, Jäger E, Kloor M, von Knebel Doeberitz M. A multiplex method for the detection of serum antibodies against in silico-predicted tumor antigens. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2014 Dec;63(12):1251-9.
- Bauer K, Nelius N, Reuschenbach M, Koch M, Weitz J, Steinert G, Kopitz J, Beckhove P, Tariverdian M, von Knebel Doeberitz M, Kloor M. T cell responses against microsatellite instability-induced frameshift peptides and influence of regulatory T cells in colorectal cancer. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2013 Jan;62 (1): 27-37.
- Kloor M, Michel S, von Knebel Doeberitz M. Immune evasion of microsatellite unstable colorectal cancers. Int J Cancer. 2010 Sep 1;127(5):1001-10.
- Michel S, Linnebacher M, Alcaniz J, Voss M, Wagner R, Dippold W, Becker C, von Knebel Doeberitz M, Ferrone S, Kloor M. Lack of HLA class II antigen expression in microsatellite unstable colorectal carcinomas is caused by mutations in HLA class II regulatory genes. Int J Cancer. 2009 Dec 9;127(4):889-898.
- Schwitalle Y, Kloor M, Eiermann S, Linnebacher M, Kienle P, Knaebel HP, Tariverdian M, Benner A, von Knebel Doeberitz M. Immune response against frameshift-induced neopeptides in HNPCC patients and healthy HNPCC mutation carriers. Gastroenterology 2008
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