Sentences with phrase «new field of immunotherapy»

In the new field of immunotherapy, for example, we want to use molecules to bind to the surface of an immune cell and activate that cell so it attacks cancer.

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The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy brings together experts in the field from New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering, Stanford Medicine, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, San Francisco, Houston's University of Texas MD Anderson and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, according to its website.

So, Loncar took matters into his own hands and created a new type of biotech index that focuses exclusively on the red - hot field of cancer immunotherapy drugs (treatments which use the body's immune system as a conduit to fight cancer).

A promising new field of cancer treatment is cancer immunotherapy, which helps the body's own immune system fight off cancer.

In 2009, BMS took a big risk jumping into the immunotherapy field by acquiring the company Medarex, which brought with it Yervoy, a member of a new class of cancer drugs.

We are leaders in the field of cancer immunotherapy and the development of tumor vaccines and new antibodies, working to activate the human body's own immune system to fight cancer.

NEW YORK, July 26, 2016 — The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization established in 1953 to advance biomedical research with the goal of developing lifesaving immunotherapies for all forms of cancer, will bestow its highest honors on three scientists who have made fundamental contributions to the fields of immunology and cancer immunology.

These studies will open up new avenues for cancer immunotherapy and significantly advance the field, with the ultimate goal of benefitting patients.

The recent FDA approval of a gene therapy for leukemia treatment marks a new frontier in medical innovation for the field of cancer immunotherapy.

Progress in the evolving field of immunotherapy and the emerging field of viral - based gene therapy herald a promising new era in the field of liver cancer.

Through the CIC program, the Cancer Research Institute conducts a number of important initiatives that seek among other things to build consensus across the field on key issues, to develop and implement new standards for carrying out and reporting immunological monitoring assays of therapeutic cancer vaccines, and to establish and promote the adoption of new criteria for evaluating the clinical impact of cancer immunotherapies.

Medical progress continues to give rise to new areas of research within the field of immunology, such as transplant immunology and immunotherapy.