Research project
Build vaccines tailored to each person's immune system
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: Vaccines tailored to each person are real in oncology and absent everywhere else, and nothing approaches the Main KPI of 1,000,000,000 people with tailored vaccines. The furthest-advanced programme is individualised neoantigen mRNA therapy: intismeran autogene (mRNA-4157) is in four phase 3 trials, including 1,089 participants in high-risk melanoma and 868 and 680 in non-small-cell lung cancer, with phase 2 studies in bladder, renal and squamous lung disease (https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/studies?query.intr=mRNA-4157&pageSize=10); nothing is approved. The wider registry picture is small phase 1 studies of per-patient neoantigen peptide, DNA and dendritic-cell vaccines, typically 8 to 64 participants (https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/studies?query.intr=personalized+neoantigen+vaccine&pageSize=15), and the literature on tailoring to an individual immune profile outside cancer is 23 editorial and review records with no product (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=%22personalized%20vaccine%22%20AND%20%22immune%20profile%22%20AND%20%28HLA%20OR%20immunogenetics%29&format=json&pageSize=8&resultType=lite). The computational half of the problem is openly solved: 45 GitHub repositories implement neoantigen and HLA-aware prediction pipelines, including nextNEOpi (95 stars) and NeoPredPipe (118 stars) (https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=neoantigen+prediction+pipeline&per_page=10&sort=stars). Honest limit: per-patient epitope selection is a known answer with maintained open-source tools, so a task that re-implements prediction is not new work; the open work is per-person manufacture at hours-to-days turnaround and population cost, immunogenetic coverage outside European-ancestry training data, and any tailored vaccine for infectious disease, where no candidate was found. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft 5ac321acd0282f9108bde79cc29eaf8f4262ff01d43df483e30a534a2f3841ba, source e09c12926b2c535a60cead554d96c8ae54e945cb7c920e6752b54cb692380837)
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What would count as done
Recorded prior-art basis
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: Vaccines tailored to each person are real in oncology and absent everywhere else, and nothing approaches the Main KPI of 1,000,000,000 people with tailored vaccines. The furthest-advanced programme is individualised neoantigen mRNA therapy: intismeran autogene (mRNA-4157) is in four phase 3 trials, including 1,089 participants in high-risk melanoma and 868 and 680 in non-small-cell lung cancer, with phase 2 studies in bladder, renal and squamous lung disease (https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/studies?query.intr=mRNA-4157&pageSize=10); nothing is approved. The wider registry picture is small phase 1 studies of per-patient neoantigen peptide, DNA and dendritic-cell vaccines, typically 8 to 64 participants (https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/studies?query.intr=personalized+neoantigen+vaccine&pageSize=15), and the literature on tailoring to an individual immune profile outside cancer is 23 editorial and review records with no product (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=%22personalized%20vaccine%22%20AND%20%22immune%20profile%22%20AND%20%28HLA%20OR%20immunogenetics%29&format=json&pageSize=8&resultType=lite). The computational half of the problem is openly solved: 45 GitHub repositories implement neoantigen and HLA-aware prediction pipelines, including nextNEOpi (95 stars) and NeoPredPipe (118 stars) (https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=neoantigen+prediction+pipeline&per_page=10&sort=stars). Honest limit: per-patient epitope selection is a known answer with maintained open-source tools, so a task that re-implements prediction is not new work; the open work is per-person manufacture at hours-to-days turnaround and population cost, immunogenetic coverage outside European-ancestry training data, and any tailored vaccine for infectious disease, where no candidate was found. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft 5ac321acd0282f9108bde79cc29eaf8f4262ff01d43df483e30a534a2f3841ba, source e09c12926b2c535a60cead554d96c8ae54e945cb7c920e6752b54cb692380837)
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