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3352 Surgical Adjuvant of Immunomodulatory Gene Circuits for Treatment of Glioblastoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2019

Jordan Matthew Spatz
Affiliation:
University Of California, San Francisco
Ming Ru Wu
Affiliation:
M.I.T.
Karen Weisinger
Affiliation:
M.I.T.
Tim Lu
Affiliation:
M.I.T.
Manish Aghi
Affiliation:
University Of California, San Francisco
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Abstract

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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a brain cancer with a devastatingly short overall survival of under two years. The poor prognosis of GBM is largely due to cell invasion and maintenance of cancer initiating cells that evade the brain’s innate and adaptive immune responses which enables escape from surgical resection and drives inevitable recurrence. While targeting the brain’s immune microenvironment has long been proposed as a strategy for treating GBM, translational progress has been slow, underscoring the need to investigate the brain’s immune microenvironment for therapeutic avenues. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Recent advancements in tunable synthetic immunomodulatory gene circuits targeting metastatic cancers has demonstrated the novel ability to use engineering principles to induce infiltrative cancer cells to express combinatorial immunomodulatory outputs that enable T-cell killing4. Our central hypothesis is: we will be able to significantly improve survival with a lasting immune-mediated control of GBM by using synthetic immunomodulatory gene circuits driving GBM cells to express a local combination of immunomodulatory proteins: human IL15, a surface T-cell engager, PD-L1-CD3 bispecific antibody, and the protein, LIGHT (TNFRSF14). Importantly, the co-expression of LIGHT and anti-PD-L1 therapies was recently shown to rescue PD-L1 checkpoint blockage in the preclinical models of brain tumors and significant enhance survival outcomes highlighting the benefits of novel combinations of immunomodulatory proteins for treatment of GBM. To identify genes whose expression is dramatically upregulated in GBM compared to normal human brain cells, a pooled of six thousand lentiviral oncogene promoters that drive expression of a red-fluorescent protein has been infected into three human GBM cell lines. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: We have successfully infected our GBM cells and are preparing samples for next generation DNA sequencing to determine highly active promoters in GBM that are not expressed in multiple normal brain cells types, astrocytes and neurons. These chosen promoters will then be used to drive an AND gate logic gene circuit immunotherapy outputs which is currently under development for both in-vitro and in-vivo experiments. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: We anticipate that local expression of multiple immune effectors proteins will significantly enhance tumor control and survival in both synergistic murine and human-murine xenograft pre-clinical models of GBM. Ultimately, our goal is to rapidly translate this technology advance into the clinical trial for adult GBM patients.

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Translational Science, Policy, & Health Outcomes Science
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