Hi-TIDe : T cell discovery

HARARI Lab

Our focus

Our objective is to unveil the dynamic of T-cell specificities and antigen recognition in patients receiving cellular therapies and to develop new knowledge and methods leading to early clinical translation in the domain of T-cell therapy.

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Our projects

  • We have designed novel culture methods to generate tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TILs) populations that are highly enriched in neoepitope-specific CD8 T cells.
  • We have developed sensitive and high-throughput methodologies to interrogate T cells and analyze repertoires of T cell receptors (TCRs) and have developed unique functional assays to profile tumor antigen-specific T cells.
  • We have established a multidisciplinary consortium (FNS Synergia), including bio-engineering and bioinformatics, to interrogate antitumoral immunity and to develop next-generation cellular immunity.
  • We have established mass cytometry analyses on tissue and cell suspension to interrogate human samples of patients undergoing T cell therapy.
  • We also use single cell sequencing (RNA and TCRs) to profile patients adoptively transferred with autologous TILs to understand the dynamic of individual clonotypes in vitro (during TIL expansion) and in vivo (after infusion to patients).

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KEY PUBLICATIONS

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Funding

  • FNS 310030_182384 (Functional Correlates of Neoantigen-Specific Cellular Immunity and Therapy)
  • FNS CRSII5_193749 (Deciphering the target landscape of tumor-specific T Cell Receptors: a bench-to-bits-to-bedside approach)
  • Interreg R-TIC

Affiliations

  • Lausanne University Hospital - CHUV
  • Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne branch

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CONTACT

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Alexandre HARARI
Associate Professor
Group leader
Human integrated tumor immunology discovery engine (Hi-TIDe)

Department of oncology UNIL CHUV
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne

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Phone +41 79 5567708
E-mail

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Featured publication -------

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Sensitive identification of neoantigens and cognate TCRs in human solid tumors
Aug-2021 | M. Arnaud...G. Coukos & A. Harari

Ch. des Boveresses 155 - CH-1066 Epalinges
Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 692 59 92
Fax +41 21 692 59 95
Ludwig Cancer ResearchUniversité de LausanneCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)