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Nora Backes

Tumor Lipids of Pediatric Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma Stimulate Unconventional T Cells

Papillary renal cell carcinoma (PRCC) is a rare entity in children with no established therapy protocols for advanced diseases. Immunotherapy is emerging as an important therapeutic tool for childhood cancer. Tumor cells can be recognized and killed by conventional and unconventional T cells. Unconventional T cells are able to recognize lipid antigens presented via CD1 molecules independently from major histocompatibility complex, which offers new alternatives for cancer immunotherapies. The nature of those lipids is largely unknown and α-galactosylceramide is currently used as a synthetic model antigen. In this work, we analyzed infiltrating lymphocytes of two pediatric PRCCs using flow cy…

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49P Targeting IGF1R in osteosarcoma

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TRTH-08. HIGH GRADE NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH BCOR ALTERATION IS SENSITIVE TO IGF1R INHIBITION

High grade neuroepithelial tumor of the central nervous system with BCOR alteration (CNS HGNET-BCOR) is a recently described new tumor entity which was formerly diagnosed with diverse histological diagnoses, for example as ependymoma. This tumor predominantly affects children and has a dismal prognosis. No standard therapies for this entity exist so far. Recently we described the activation of the Sonic hedgehog (SHH) and the WNT signaling pathway in this tumor and described a primary cell culture (PhKh1) isolated from a skull metastasis of a seven years old patient. We also detected a high expression of IGF2, which is known to be required for SHH signaling in medulloblastoma. IGF2 signals …

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16P Molecular analysis for precision oncology of children: Beyond genomics

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