Sentences with phrase «tumor immunology who»

CRI Scientific Advisory Council director Lloyd J. Old, M.D., a pioneer responsible for many seminal discoveries in the field, is a senior expert in tumor immunology who for the past four decades has guided the scientific vision for CRI and who currently leads the Institute's global cancer vaccine research programs.

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To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-CTLA4.

For a while, people were not keen on anyone who wanted to do tumor immunology.

For instance, «we're seeing relapses despite the fact» that T cells have swarmed a tumor and taken aim at molecules on the malignant cells, said Greenberg, who is also the head of immunology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.