Cancer cells cooperate to fight off the immune system and overcome therapy
New research from the lab of Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, showed that tumor cells can escape T cell killing during immunotherapy by using “clonal cooperation.” This work suggests that early treatment with immunotherapies may be more effective, before tumor cell heterogeneity emerges.
UChicago Medicine surges ahead with revolutionary CAR T-cell cancer treatment
UChicago Medicine's clinical trials for CAR T-cell therapy are showing so much promise for certain blood cancers that more studies are being started, FDA approvals are on the horizon, and pharmaceutical companies are hovering.
A band of scientists
Science is their life's work. Music is a lifelong passion. After hours, these University of Chicago researchers and physicians turn their creative energies to the stage.
