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Mikko Siurala

University of Pennsylvania
Verified email at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic cancer therapy with combined mesothelin-redirected chimeric antigen receptor T cells and cytokine-armed oncolytic adenoviruses

K Watanabe, Y Luo, T Da, S Guedan, M Ruella… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by its highly immunosuppressive
tumor microenvironment (TME) that limits T cell infiltration and induces T cell hypofunction …

[HTML][HTML] Potentiating adoptive cell therapy using synthetic IL-9 receptors

A Kalbasi, M Siurala, LL Su, M Tariveranmoshabad… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Synthetic receptor signalling has the potential to endow adoptively transferred T cells with
new functions that overcome major barriers in the treatment of solid tumours, including the …

[HTML][HTML] Oncolytic adenoviruses armed with tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-2 enable successful adoptive cell therapy

R Havunen, M Siurala, S Sorsa… - Molecular Therapy …, 2017 - cell.com
Adoptive cell therapy holds much promise in the treatment of cancer but results in solid
tumors have been modest. The notable exception is tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) …

Identifying highly active anti-CCR4 CAR T cells for the treatment of T-cell lymphoma

K Watanabe, AM Gomez, S Kuramitsu… - Blood …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
A challenge when targeting T-cell lymphoma with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell
therapy is that target antigens are often shared between T cells and tumor cells, resulting in …

Adenovirus improves the efficacy of adoptive T-cell therapy by recruiting immune cells to and promoting their activity at the tumor

S Tähtinen, S Grönberg-Vähä-Koskela, D Lumen… - Cancer immunology …, 2015 - AACR
Despite the rapid progress in the development of novel adoptive T-cell therapies, the clinical
benefits in treatment of established tumors have remained modest. Several immune evasion …

[HTML][HTML] Abscopal effect in non-injected tumors achieved with cytokine-armed oncolytic adenovirus

R Havunen, JM Santos, S Sorsa, T Rantapero… - Molecular Therapy …, 2018 - cell.com
Cancer treatment with local administration of armed oncolytic viruses could potentially
induce systemic antitumor effects, or the abscopal effect, as they self-amplify in tumors …

[HTML][HTML] Oncolytic adenovirus shapes the ovarian tumor microenvironment for potent tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte tumor reactivity

JM Santos, C Heiniö, V Cervera-Carrascon… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Ovarian cancers often contain significant numbers of tumor-infiltrating
lymphocytes (TILs) that can be readily harnessed for adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) …

Oncolytic adenovirus and doxorubicin‐based chemotherapy results in synergistic antitumor activity against soft‐tissue sarcoma

M Siurala, S Bramante, L Vassilev… - … Journal of Cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Despite originating from several different tissues, soft‐tissue sarcomas (STS) are often
grouped together as they share mesenchymal origin and treatment guidelines. Also, with …

[HTML][HTML] Adenovirus coding for interleukin-2 and tumor necrosis factor alpha replaces lymphodepleting chemotherapy in adoptive T cell therapy

JM Santos, V Cervera-Carrascon, R Havunen, S Zafar… - Molecular Therapy, 2018 - cell.com
Lymphodepleting preconditioning with high-dose chemotherapy is commonly used to
increase the clinical efficacy of adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) strategies, however, with …

[HTML][HTML] Adenoviral delivery of tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-2 enables successful adoptive cell therapy of immunosuppressive melanoma

M Siurala, R Havunen, D Saha, D Lumen… - Molecular Therapy, 2016 - cell.com
Adoptive T-cell transfer is a promising treatment approach for metastatic cancer, but efficacy
in solid tumors has only been achieved with toxic pre-and postconditioning regimens. Thus …