Fernanda Szewc

ORCID: 0000-0003-1608-9321
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Research Areas
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response

University of Wisconsin–Madison
2020-2025

Background Allogeneic bone marrow transplant (alloBMT) is curative for hematologic malignancies through the graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effect but has been ineffective solid tumors like osteosarcoma (OS). OS expresses CD155 which interacts strongly with inhibitory receptors TIGIT and CD96 also binds to activating receptor DNAM-1 on natural killer (NK) cells. never targeted after alloBMT. Combining adoptively transferred allogeneic NK (alloNK) cells blockade alloBMT may enhance a GVT against OS....

10.1136/jitc-2023-008755 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2025-04-01

<h3>Background</h3> Allogeneic bone marrow transplant (alloBMT) is curative for hematologic malignancies through the graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effect but has been ineffective solid tumors like osteosarcoma (OS). OS expresses CD155 which interacts strongly with inhibitory receptors TIGIT and CD96 also binds to activating receptor DNAM-1 on natural killer (NK) cells. never targeted after alloBMT. Combining adoptively transferred allogeneic NK (alloNK) cells blockade alloBMT may enhance a GVT...

10.1136/jitc-2024-sitc2024.0362 article EN cc-by-nc Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts 2024-11-01

Allogeneic bone marrow transplant (alloBMT) is curative for hematologic malignancies through the graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effect but has been ineffective solid tumors like osteosarcoma (OS). OS expresses CD155 which interacts strongly with inhibitory receptors TIGIT and CD96 also binds to activating receptor DNAM-1 on natural killer (NK) cells. never targeted after alloBMT. Combining adoptively transferred allogeneic NK (alloNK) cells blockade alloBMT may enhance a GVT against OS.

10.1101/2023.06.07.544144 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-06-09

<h3>Background</h3> Relapsed pediatric sarcomas have a poor prognosis with no available curative options. Alpha-Tocopheryloxyacetic acid (a-TEA) is redox-silent analog of alpha-tocopherol that induces apoptotic and immunogenic cell death tumor cells at doses are not harmful to healthy normal cells. In first-in-human clinical trial, a-TEA was well tolerated in adults advanced solid tumors (NCT02192346), but has yet been studied sarcoma. We used murine model rhabdomyosarcoma (M3-9-M RMS)...

10.1136/jitc-2020-sitc2020.0560 article EN Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts 2020-11-01

Abstract Relapsed sarcomas remain essentially incurable for most children with cancer. Alpha-Tocopheryloxyacetic acid (αTEA) is a scalable semi-synthetic derivative of alpha-tocopherol that has shown promising activity preclinically and clinically in adult cancer, but not yet been studied pediatric sarcoma. We hypothesized αTEA would mediate anti-tumor effects rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) by modulating the immunosuppressive milieu. Treatment murine M3-9-M RMS vitro (2.5–100uM) resulted increased...

10.4049/jimmunol.204.supp.241.30 article EN The Journal of Immunology 2020-05-01
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