Immuno-Oncolytic Viruses

Engineered viruses have proven to be powerful “bullets” to target cancer cells and to promote their immunogenic death. Oncolytic viruses are replicative viruses that preferentially infect tumor cells while preserving healthy cells. Some of them, in particular the measles virus, exhibit immuno-adjuvant properties that reinforce the antitumor immune response by breaking immune tolerance to the cancer.