Jose Conejo-Garcia

Anti-PD-L2 immunotherapy is efficacious against melanoma in aged hosts through IL-17 and IFNγ signalling Nature Communications - PD-L2 can bind the immune checkpoint PD-1. However, its potential as a therapeutic target for immune checkpoint blockade in cancer has not been extensively explored. Here,...

Great story from Carlos Ontiveros and Tyler Curiel on the role opf PD-L2 in anti-tumor immunity in old subjects with melanoma.
PD-L1 and PD-1 blockade are often equated but biologically it is not the same and they may have different clinical applications.
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Anixa Biosciences Announces World Health Organization (WHO) Approval of International Non-Proprietary Name for its CAR-T Therapy, Marking a Key Milestone Toward Global Recognition and Future Commercialization:
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The promise of TIL therapy for glioblastoma Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy has demonstrated efficacy in refractory melanoma and durable responses in lung cancer. Glioblastoma presen…

The promise of TIL therapy for glioblastoma.
Inspiring perspective from Mustafa Kharaw's team on their ongoing work to make immunotherapy effective against one of the most devastating human cancers:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fireside Chat: Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (ANIX) . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Please join us for a conversation with Chairman & CEO Dr. Amit Kumar, PhD, on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at 2:00 pm ET. Our topics of discussion will cover: • An overview of clinical development pro...

Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (ANIX), which is testing CER T cells redirected against FSHR with FSH in patients with relapsed, chemoresisatnt ovarian cancer, will participate in the upcoming Water Tower Research Fireside Chat Series (November 11, 2025, at 11:00am PT)
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Leukocyte-intrinsic ER stress responses contribute to chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy Depletion of the ER stress sensor IRE1α can reduce paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy in mice.

Leukocyte-intrinsic ER stress responses contribute to chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Medicine Nobel for researchers who discovered immune system's security guards Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi honored for research on ‘peripheral immune tolerance’

Medicine Nobel for researchers who characterized the immunobiology of regulatory T cells (previously "suppressor T cells"):
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Thanks indeed to all program officers and grant manager specialists at the NIH. I admire their resilience and commitment to keeping the NIH as the best science funding agency in the world even when tehm are under assault by the administration. It is clear who is on the side of Science and who is not

A working group report from the 2024 National Cancer Institute / Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee endometrial cancer clinical trials planning meeting: refining the approach to endometrial cancer ... Abstract. Endometrial cancer is now the leading cause of gynecologic cancer death in the United States. Recognizing the urgent need to improve outcomes for

working group report from the 2024 National Cancer Institute / Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee endometrial cancer clinical trials planning meeting: refining the approach to endometrial cancer in the immunotherapy era url: academic.oup.com/jnci/article...

Anixa Biosciences Announces Issuance of Additional U.S. Patent for CAR-T Technology:
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Immune memory shapes ovarian cancer recurrence Despite current progress, many patients with ovarian cancer (OC) often relapse after therapy. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Ghisoni et al. integrate multiomic and functional analyses to provide a road...

Immune memory shapes ovarian cancer recurrence:
Comment on the article of Ghisoni and Dangaj in Cancer Cell www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

Dr. Robert Wenham, principal investigator for Anixa's ongoing ovarian cancer CAR-T therapy Phase 1 clinical trial, will be presenting at the 13th Annual Ovarcoming Cancer Conference, being held September 18 – 19, 2025, at the Briar Club in Houston, Texas.
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I am disappointed and alarmed that millions of Americans listen to these comments and do not see anything fundamentally wrong and indicative of a psychopathy.

This is important, among other reasons, because ICIs failed in relapsed ovarian cancers, questioning whether relapsed tumors lost immunogenicity.
Although analyses of neoantigens and TCR frequencies are ongoing, it is clear that tumors re-establish the immuno-environment (e.g., TIL patterns).

Myeloid cell networks govern re-establishment of original immune landscapes in recurrent ovarian cancer Ghisoni et al. profile the immune landscape of 697 ovarian cancers (OCs), identifying four immune phenotypes linked to prognosis and treatment response. The study demonstrates that BRCA-dependent TIL:...

This new study from Dangaj& Ghisoni in Cancer Cell analyzed 131 matching primary/relapsed ovarian cancers, to show that the immune landscape of the original tumor is re-established in the recurrent lesion, which depends on HRD status and pre-existing TIL:myeloid niches. www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

Federal government freezes $108 million in NIH funding to Duke, source tells The Chronicle The freeze follows two federal investigations launched Monday by the Trump administration into Duke University and Duke Health, alleging “systemic racial discrimination” and violations of the Civil Ri...

Federal government freezes $108 million in NIH funding to Duke. Apparently for racial discrimination...against white Anglos in the Deep South...this sounds like a Tarantino movie... www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Humoral determinants of checkpoint immunotherapy Nature - Rapid extracellular antibody profiling reveals a contribution of autoantibodies to the effectiveness of checkpoint immunotherapy for cancer.

In this new study, Aaron Ring and colleagues demonstrate the importance of antibody responses on the effectiveness of patients with cancer treated with ICI. As for treatment naive tumors, these are autoandibodies thsat in most cases do not cause autoimmunity:

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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

There is at least some attention from the press to the devastation of the scientific enterprise that is going on...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Improving lung cancer tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) manufacturing The successful treatment of melanoma using autologous in-vitro expanded tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) has sparked clinical trials for the assessment of TILs efficacy against other cancers, inc...

Improving lung cancer tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) manufacturing - Cytotherapy www.isct-cytotherapy.org/article/S146...

In immunology, for instance, experiments can only be done in vivo to capture the complex interactions of multiple cell types, cytokines and chemokines. No computer will predict immune subsets and mediators that we do not fully understand yet.

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies. This is potentially catastrophic. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...

Zelig Eshhar, leading cancer researcher and immunologist, dies at 84 Research by Weizmann Institute scientist and Israel Prize winner saved 'countless lives,' was basis for technology sold for $12 billion in 2017

Zelig Eshhar, leading cancer researcher and immunologist, and the father of CAR T cells, dies at 84:
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Profiling antigen-binding affinity of B cell repertoires in tumors by deep learning predicts immune-checkpoint inhibitor treatment outcomes - Nature Cancer Song et al. developed a computational tool to profile binding pairs between tumor-derived antigens and antibodies from high-throughput B cell receptor sequencing data, predicting response to immune-ch...

Great article from Tao wang in Nature Cancer:
The abundance of tumor antigen-targeting antibodies is predictive of ICI response. Plus a new computational method to predict binding between antibodies and antigens that can be scaled to high-throughput sequencing data
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Building Better Immunotherapy: Using a method spearheaded by led by José Ramón Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD, and Scott Antonia, MD, PhD (pictured here), immune cells are being engineered to find and attack cancer tumors.

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#AcademicSky #MedSky #Immunobiology

They did not need to delay the progress of biomedical research for many years, ruining the life of thousands of valuable people in the process, to find that people mostly work in government because they believe in the mission of the agency. Very efficiently for what they earn

Press Releases :: Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (ANIX)

Anixa Biosciences Initiates Dosing in Fourth Cohort in its Ovarian Cancer CAR-T Clinical Trial. No dose-limiting toxicities were observed in the third cohort.
The trial is enrolling women with recurrent ovarian cancer who have progressed after two prior therapies.
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YouTube video by CDMRP OCRP Academy Video Preview 28Feb

Hear from OCRP leaders in this video series on how the Ovarian Cancer Academy supports researchers in making ovarian cancer the focus of their scientific careers and accelerating progress in the field:

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This idiot should see the apartment where I lived when I was a postdoc.

Dr. Roger Li receives the Young Investigator Award of the Society of Urologic Oncology.
I cannot imagine a more deserved prize.
Congratulations, Roger!
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Another grossly unqualified individual for a position way beyond her capabilities. Basically, the village idiot in every department but the state department, occupied by an individual with other issues.

Anixa Biosciences Outlines Significant Progress and Key Milestones in Shareholder Letter Anixa Biosciences, under CEO Dr. Amit Kumar, shares substantial progress in cancer treatments and plans for 2025 in a recent letter to shareholders.

Anixa Biosciences Outlines Significant Progress and Key Milestones in Shareholder Letter #United_States #Anixa_Biosciences #San_Jose #CAR-T_therapy #Breast_Cancer_Vaccine