drug_type
RELEVANT_DRUG
intervention_type
Vaccine
drug_description
An oral, bacteria-based personalized DNA cancer vaccine encoding patient-specific neoantigens; delivers neoantigen DNA to antigen-presenting cells to drive MHC I/II presentation and expand neoantigen-specific CD8+/CD4+ T cells.
nci_thesaurus_concept_id
C187351
nci_thesaurus_definition
A personalized, oral Ty21a-based neoantigen vaccine consisting of eukaryotic expression plasmid encoding patient-specific tumor neoantigens that are immunogenic and unique to the patients tumor, with potential immunomodulating and antineoplastic activities. Upon oral administration of personalized neoantigen vaccine NECVAX NEO1, the patient-specific neoantigens elicit a specific and potent cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expressing these neoantigens. Ty21a is a live-attenuated Salmonella typhi strain oral typhoid vaccine that is modified and used to deliver the neoantigens-encoding plasmids to the gut-associated lymphoid tissue.
drug_mesh_term
Cancer Vaccines
drug_category
GENE THERAPY
drug_class
Vaccine
drug_delivery_route
Oral
drug_mechanism_of_action
An oral, live-attenuated Salmonella (Ty21a) vector delivering plasmid DNA encoding patient-specific tumor neoantigens to antigen-presenting cells in the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, leading to intracellular expression and MHC I/II presentation of the neoantigens and expansion/activation of neoantigen-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T cells for anti-tumor immunity.
drug_name
NECVAX-NEO1
nct_id_drug_ref
NCT06631079