Elimination of established tumors
with nanodisc - based combination chemoimmunotherapy - Science Advances
«We are basically educating the immune system
with these nanodiscs so that immune cells can attack cancer cells in a personalized manner,» said James Moon, the John Gideon Searle assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and biomedical engineering.
Not exact matches
The
nanodisc technology was tested in mice
with established melanoma and colon cancer tumors.
The therapeutic cancer vaccine employs
nanodiscs loaded
with tumor neoantigens, which are unique mutations found in tumor cells.
Next, Hafenstein's group plans to use a larger
nanodisc to capture the process of the virus interacting
with the mock membrane.