Not exact matches
A number
of other small studies support this idea, known as «
immunotherapy,» for overcoming
various types of food allergies, but it's still unclear how long the effects last — it may be that people have to keep consuming the allergen regularly to avoid becoming allergic again — and exposing allergic individuals to their offending allergens can,
of course, be risky.
The aim
of this collaboration is to identify innovative drug candidates and biomarkers for
immunotherapy of various types of cancer, starting from patient tumor derived material.
The goal is to use cancer proteomics to help investigators identify which proteins are useful for advances in diagnostics, imaging or targets for
various types of treatments, from
immunotherapies to small molecules.
In 2016, Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., program leader
of Wistar's Translational Tumor Immunology program, and his research team identified a marker for myeloid - derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), a population
of immune cells implicated in tumor resistance to
various types of cancer treatment, including targeted therapies, chemotherapy and
immunotherapy.