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.
Publications
Seminars in Immunology, 2025
Book Chapter, Methods in Molecular Biology, Cancer Vaccines, 2025
Book Chapter, Methods in Molecular Biology, Cancer Vaccines, 2025
Chemical Society Reviews, 2024
Co-organizing Conferences
News
Date | Event | Name |
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09/25 | Flash talk at the 20th Cancer Biology Research Center Biennial meeting, Israel | PhD student |
07/25 | Introductory lectures in life sciences and medicine Alpha summer camp, Israel | PI |
06/25 | 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 | PhD student |
06/25 | 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, Tel Aviv Israel | MSc and PhD students |
05/25 | Poster presentation at The The American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting, Hawaii USA | PhD student |
05/25 | Poster presentation at the 2nd Shmunis Conference: "Viruses Across Domains of Life" | PhD student |
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 Israel Immunological Society Annual Meeting, Israel | MSc and PhD students |
02/25 | Attendance in the World Cancer Day 2025 | 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, Tel Aviv Israel | MSc and PhD students |
10/24 | Workshop Collaborations in Healthy Aging and Longevity, Northwestern University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Toronto | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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), Tel Aviv, Israel | MSc and PhD students |
01/23 | Lecture at World cancer day | 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 | 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 | MSc Excellence Scholarship, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research | MSc student |
06/21 | Society for Glycobiology Travel Award | PhD student |
05/21 | Virtual Attendance in the Israel Society for Cancer Research Annual Meeting | MSc student |
05/21 | The Iafa Keydar Prize in Cancer Biology | PhD student |
04/21 | Virtual Attendance in the Experimental Biology, Israel | MSc student |
02/21 | Attendance in the Meeting of the Israeli Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, Israel | PhD student |
01/21 | Oral Presentation in the CBRC 6th Virtual Seminar, Israel | PhD student |