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| PROJECT TITLE | The new wave of anticancer vaccines |
| CATEGORY | Ovarian and Renal Cancer, Cancer Vaccines |
| PROJECT DESCRIPTION |
Cancer cells evade
the body's natural defense mechanism and grow uncontrolled. The most
effective method to fight cancer would be to trigger the patient's own
immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells.
This project builds on initial research that has proven that a patient's own immune system can be primed to specifically attack cancer cells. Cancer cells are removed from the body, mixed with a patient's own immune cells to create large amounts of primed immune cells that can be returned to the body ready to recognize and destroy the cancer cells. These primed cells also recruit other immune cells already in the body to attack the cancer cells. Once perfected, this cancer vaccine technology could be used to treat a wide variety of cancers. |
| INVESTIGATORS | Emmanuel Katsanis, MD |
| CO-FUNDERS | University of Arizona, University Physicians Experimental Research in Clinical Care |
| INSTITUTION | Department of
Pediatrics University of Arizona PO Box 245073 Tucson, AZ 85724 |
| STATUS | Approved for
funding Pending completion of Partnership Agreement |
