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ERC Consolidator Grant No.101003021   GlycoTherapy

Cancer remains a major cause of death despite the phenomenal progress in current immunotherapy.  This kind of treatment aims to boost host immune response relying on specificity of antibodies and T cells, and their ability to distinguish between cancer and normal cells. The three main cancer immunotherapies are cellular therapeutics, immune checkpoint blockade and therapeutic cancer vaccines, but those have only limited success, mainly due to difficulties in identifying target antigens. Carbohydrate chains (glycans) ubiquitously occupy the surface of cells, but cancer cells express aberrant glycans. The presentation mode of glycans and their heterogeneity affect their immune recognition, but the fundamental understanding of how these factors contribute to efficient cancer therapy in vivo has not been defined systematically. The primary objective of this proposal is to design a comprehensive novel cancer immunotherapy approach targeting glycan-neoantigens. We use an innovative interdisciplinary approach that integrates glycobiology, immunology, biochemistry, nanotechnology, with cutting-edge technologies, to design and fully investigate new frontiers in cancer ‘GlycoTherapy’ in vivo. Our discovery line is aimed to yield valuable translational tools and knowledge in diverse research fields. Successful comprehensive understanding of glyco-immunotherapy will provide a platform to design, generate and validate potent novel cancer theranostics that would fit treatment in humans. It employs established systems side-by-side with state-of-the-art technologies, including glycan microarrays.

Co-organizing Conferences

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News

Date
Event
Name
11/25
Hosting prospective students from Lod supported by The Joseph S‭. ‬&‭ ‬Caroline Gruss Life Monument Fund
PI
11/25
Society For Glycobiology Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA
PI
11/25
Travel grant and poster presentation on the Society For Glycobiology Annual meeting 2025, San Diego USA
PhD student
05/25
Poster presentation at The annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, Hawai
PhD student
09/25
Flash talk at the 20th Cancer Biology Research Center (CBRC) Biennial meeting, Israel
PhD student
07/25
Introductory lectures in life sciences and medicine Alpha summer camp, Israel
PI
06/25
Won the MSc Excellence Scholarship, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
MSc student
06/25
Lecture at High School, Israel
PI
06/25
Lecture at BioMed seminar, Israel
PI
06/25
Travel Grant of The Cancer Biology Research Center (CBRC).
PhD student
06/25
Won the Djerassi Oncology Institute Travel Grant
PhD student
05/25
Lecture at the Direct program for PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel
PI
05/25
Attendance in 4th conference of the Tel Aviv University Center for Combatting Pandemics (TCCP), Tel Aviv, Israel
MSc and PhD students
05/25
Poster presentation at The The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Annual Meeting, Hawaii USA
PhD student
05/25
Poster presentation at the 2nd Shmunis Conference: "Viruses Across Domains of Life"
PhD student Li Ben-Tov
04/25
Lecture at Tobingen University Summer School, Tobingen Germany
PI
04/25
Oral Presentation at Tobingen University Summer School, Tobingen Germany
PhD student
03/25
Attendance, flash talk and Poster presentation at The 2025 Israel Immunological Society (IIS) Annual Meeting, Israel
MSc and PhD students
02/25
Attendance in the World Cancer Day 2025 (CBRC)
PhD student
12/24
Lecture to TAU Directorate of Defence Research & Development
PI
11/24
Lecture at the SFG satelite meeting, Israel
PI
11/24
Lecture at Glycobasque 7, Bilbao Spain
PI
11/24
Lecture at Tel-Aviv University Academy-Industry symposium, Israel
PI
11/24
Attendance in the 3rd conference of the Tel Aviv University Center for Combatting Pandemics (TCCP), Tel Aviv, Israel
MSc and PhD students
10/24
Joint Virtual Workshop, Research Collaborations in Healthy Aging and Longevity, Northwestern University (NU), Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the University of Toronto (UT)
PI
09/24
Lecture at the 16th Bratislava Symposium on Saccharides, Slovakia
PI
09/24
Attendance in Israeli Society of Gene and Cell Therapy's (ISGCT 2024) meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel
MSc and PhD students
07/24
Lecture at the 31th International Carbohydrate Symposium, Shanghai China
PI
07/24
Lecture at the Ocean University, Qingdao China
PI
07/24
Won the MSc Excellence Scholarship, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
MSc student
07/24
Lecture at Ramot RoundTable seminar, Tel-Aviv Israel
PI
05/24
Lecture at the Canada Partnering with 'Horizon Europe': Opportunities for Medical Sciences and the Health Sectore, Virtual, Canada
PI
05/24
Lecture at the seminar of the Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics & Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
PI
05/24
Lecture at the Tel-Aviv Center for Combatting Pandemics, Israel
PI
05/24
Attendance and Poster presentation at The Shmunis School Annual Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel
MSc and PhD students
05/24
Won the Travel Grant of The Ela Kodesz Institute for Research on Cancer Development and Prevention.
PhD student
04/24
Lecture at the ISCR& IIS joint immuno-oncology meeting, Israel
PI
04/24
Attendance in the ISCR& IIS joint immuno-oncology meeting, Israel
PhD student
02/24
Lecture at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in Safed, Israel
PI
09/23
The 5th Esther and Zvi Weinstat Memorial Gaduate Award in Cnacer Research, Israel
PI
08/23
Lecture at Glyco26, Taipei Taiwan
PI
07/23
Lecture at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Israel
PI
07/23
Lecture at the Colton Consortium Symposium, New Jersey USA
PI
07/23
Introductory lectures in life sciences and medicine Alpha summer camp, Israel
PI
06/23
Lecture at Seminar of the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences Bar-Ilan University, Israel
PI
06/23
Won the PhD Excellence Scholarship, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
PhD student
05/23
Lecture at Tobingen University Summer School, Israel
PI
05/23
Short talk and Attendance in the 19th Biennial Cancer Biology Center Meeting, Israel
PhD student
05/23
Lecture at the 19th Biennial Cancer Biology Research Center Metting, Israel
PI
05/23
Oral and Poster presentation in the 19th Biennial Cancer Biology Research Center Metting, Israel
PhD students
03/23
Lecture at ASBMB, Discover BMB, Seatle USA
PI
03/23
Lecture at the 1st Shmunis Cancer conferacne, Tel-Aviv Israel
PI
03/23
Flash Talk and Attendance in The 1st Shmunis Cancer Conference, Tel Aviv Israel
PhD students
02/23
Lecture at the 10th ILANIT/FISEB Conference Eilat, Israe
PI
02/23
Attendance in the Visualizing the complex dynamics of biological membranes (EMBO workshop), Tel Aviv, Israel.
MSc and PhD students
01/23
Lecture at World cancer day, 2023
PI
12/22
Lecture at the Faculty of Medicine, Technion Integrated Cancer Center, Israel
PI
12/22
Lecture at The 1st TAU Gene and Cell Therapy Hub meeting
PI
12/22
Attendance in the 2nd Israeli Flow Cytometry Conference, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
PhD student
07/22
Flash talk, Poster presentation and attendance in the Shmunis School for Biomedicine and Cancer Research conf. Israel.
MSc and PhD students
04/22
Won the Research Excellence Scholarship, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer
PhD student
02/22
Attendance in the Immunity, Cancer and the Microenvironment conferance, Haifa University, Israel
PhD student
11/21
Attendance and Oral presentation in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology, San Diego, CA, USA.
MSc and PhD students
07/21
Virtual Oral presentationThe 21sr European Carbohydrate Symposium (Eurocarb21), Paris, France.
PhD student
06/21
Won the MSc Excellence Scholarship, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
MSc student
06/21
Won the Society for Glycobiology Travel Award
PhD student
05/21
Virtual Attendance in the Israel Society for Cancer Research (ISCR) Annual Meeting
MSc student
05/21
Won the The Iafa Keydar Prize in Cancer Biology.
PhD student
04/21
Virtual Attendance in the Experimental Biology 2021 (EB),
MSc student
02/21
Attendance in the Meeting of the Israeli Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ISGCT)
PhD student
01/21
Oral Presentation in the CBRC 6th Virtual Seminar, Israel
PhD student
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