Durable therapeutic efficacy utilizing combinatorial blockade against IDO, CTLA-4, and PD-L1 in mice with brain tumors

DA Wainwright, AL Chang, M Dey, IV Balyasnikova… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common form of malignant glioma in adults.
Although protected by both the blood–brain and blood–tumor barriers, GBMs are actively …

IDO expression in brain tumors increases the recruitment of regulatory T cells and negatively impacts survival

DA Wainwright, IV Balyasnikova, AL Chang… - Clinical cancer …, 2012 - AACR
Purpose: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive adult brain tumor with a poor
prognosis. One hallmark of GBM is the accumulation of immunosuppressive and tumor-…

[HTML][HTML] STING agonist-loaded, CD47/PD-L1-targeting nanoparticles potentiate antitumor immunity and radiotherapy for glioblastoma

…, A Cordero, AM Sonabend, IV Balyasnikova… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As a key component of the standard of care for glioblastoma, radiotherapy induces several
immune resistance mechanisms, such as upregulation of CD47 and PD-L1. Here, leveraging …

Functional single-cell hybridoma screening using droplet-based microfluidics

BE Debs, R Utharala, IV Balyasnikova… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Monoclonal antibodies can specifically bind or even inhibit drug targets and have hence
become the fastest growing class of human therapeutics. Although they can be screened for …

Transgenic expression of IL15 improves antiglioma activity of IL13Rα2-CAR T cells but results in antigen loss variants

…, Z Yi, MF Wu, H Liu, G Dotti, IV Balyasnikova… - Cancer immunology …, 2017 - AACR
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults and is virtually
incurable with conventional therapies. Immunotherapy with T cells expressing GBM-specific …

Neural stem cell delivery of an oncolytic adenovirus in newly diagnosed malignant glioma: a first-in-human, phase 1, dose-escalation trial

…, J Miska, C Lee-Chang, IV Balyasnikova… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Malignant glioma is the most common and lethal primary brain tumour, with
dismal survival rates and no effective treatment. We examined the safety and activity of NSC-…

Combined transductional and transcriptional targeting improves the specificity of transgene expression in vivo

…, BG Boatman, WE Grizzle, IV Balyasnikova… - Nature …, 2001 - nature.com
The promise of gene therapy for health care will not be realized until gene delivery systems
are capable of achieving efficient, cell-specific gene delivery in vivo. Here we describe an …

[HTML][HTML] A targetable, injectable adenoviral vector for selective gene delivery to pulmonary endothelium in vivo

PN Reynolds, KR Zinn, VD Gavrilyuk, IV Balyasnikova… - Molecular Therapy, 2000 - cell.com
Adenoviral (Ad) vectors are promising gene therapy vehicles due to their in vivo stability
and efficiency, but their potential utility is compromised by their restricted tropism. Targeting …

Rotating magnetic field induced oscillation of magnetic particles for in vivo mechanical destruction of malignant glioma

…, RA Morshed, Y Han, IV Balyasnikova… - Journal of Controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
Magnetic particles that can be precisely controlled under a magnetic field and transduce
energy from the applied field open the way for innovative cancer treatment. Although these …

[HTML][HTML] Neural stem cell-based cell carriers enhance therapeutic efficacy of an oncolytic adenovirus in an orthotopic mouse model of human glioblastoma

…, NG Alexiades, Y Han, S Qian, F Liu, IV Balyasnikova… - Molecular Therapy, 2011 - cell.com
The potential utility of oncolytic adenoviruses as anticancer agents is significantly hampered
by the inability of the currently available viral vectors to effectively target micrometastatic …