Review Article

Vaccine Boosting CAR-T Cell Therapy: Current and Future Strategies

Table 1

Preclinical and clinical studies with CAR-T cells utilizing a booster vaccine platform. (Clinical trials are registered at clinicaltrials.gov).

StrategyCancer typeCAR targetVaccine usedVaccine targetStatusRef

CAR-T cell amplifying RNA vaccineRelapsed or refractory advanced solid tumorsCLDN6CLDN6-LPXDCsClinical trials (NCT04503278)[31]
Viral T cells modified with a CARMetastatic, sarcoma, and neuroblastomaGD2Live attenuated VZV vaccineVZV specific T cellsClinical trials (NCT01953900)[28]
Amphiphile CAR-T ligandsBreast cancer
Lung cancer
FITCAmph-FITCAPCsPreclinical[30]
Bispecific CMV/CD1 9 T cellsLymphomaCD19CMV vaccineCMVpp65Preclinical[32]
CAR-T therapy plus DC vaccineWT1+/HLA-
A2402+ tumors
WT1 peptideDCs loaded with WT1 antigenWT1 peptidePreclinical[33]
ACTIV therapyMelanoma
Breast cancer
Liver cancer
Her2Live recombinant vaccinia virusMelanocyte protein (gp100)Preclinical[29]