Sentences with phrase «cancer vaccines designed»

«The promising results show that personalised cancer vaccines designed to treat skin cancer are safe to use, and that for some patients, they can successfully harness the power of the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells,» Pickworth added.

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In 2015, researchers at the University of Washington's Cancer Vaccine Institute published a study on designing vaccines to prevent breast cCancer Vaccine Institute published a study on designing vaccines to prevent breast cancercancer.

Most cancer vaccines developed to date have been designed to recognize and attack a specific known molecule — such as a cell - surface receptor — that is likely to be found on cancerous cells in any patient with that type of tumor.

Researchers working on cancer vaccines may need to take account of these interactions in designing their treatments if they are ever to prove effective.

But the hope, he says, is that ImmunoMap may one day be helpful in designing vaccines and engineered T - cells for cancer treatment.

THE first vaccines designed to prevent cancer could be on the market within a few years.

It is critical to understand how best to design a cancer vaccine such that it recognizes only the tumor without inducing an equally destructive autoimmune response to normal issue.

Cancer vaccines are designed to stimulate an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antCancer vaccines are designed to stimulate an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antcancer cells bearing these antigens.

The findings have implications for the design of cancer vaccines and what are called adoptive T cell therapies; when T cells are collected from a patient and grown in the laboratory, increasing in number before they are given back to the patient to help the immune system fight disease.

Today, DCs are central to the design of vaccines that aim to train the body's immune system to attack cancer.

Therapeutic vaccines are designed to elicit an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens.

Before joining IDRI, Tracey worked as a Protocol Development Manager with the HIV Vaccine Trials Network at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where she led multi-disciplinary teams in the design and implementation of clinical trials evaluating candidate HIV and tuberculosis vaccines.

Therapeutic cancer vaccines are designed to elicit an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens.

Cancer vaccines are designed to elicit an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens.

Researchers used unique differences in each patient's cancer to design vaccines to spur the immune system into action.

My studies of cancer genomes have led to characterization of multiple pediatric and adult tumor types, to development of methods that identify and characterize changes in genomic heterogeneity, to defining acquired resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies and to designing novel, personalized vaccines for individual patients.

Knowledge gained from mechanistic studies may contribute to the design of allogeneic vaccine - based or adoptive immunotherapy for breast cancer.

Physicians with the Personalized Medicine Program at The Tisch Cancer Institute have initiated a phase I proof - of - concept study, a fully personalized multipeptide therapeutic vaccine designed to target tumor - derived neoantigens for individual patients.