Immunotherapy: is a type of cancer treatment the helps the immune system to fight cancer. The immune system helps your body fight infections and other diseases. It uses substances made by the body or in a laboratory in order to improve or restore the body's immune system function.
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DATE: December 06, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PSTHigh-throughput confocal microscopy has changed the way drug screening can be performed, by enabling the detection of single-cell pheno...
Alongside intense efforts to exploit T-cells as immunotherapies for cancer (e.g. checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T, T-cell metabolism), researchers are increasingly considering other immune cell t...
The success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on cancer cell and immune cell interaction, how cancer cells i...
DATE: October 25, 2018TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT While the significance of the microbiome is unprecedented, a thorough study to dissect the role of individual popul...
To date the anatomic extent of tumor (TNM-classification) has been by far the most important factors to predict the prognosis of cancer patients. However, this classification provides limited...
In prior work, we have pursued how tumor reactive monoclonal antibody (mAb), together with activators of innate immune cells, like NK cells, can augment antibody dependent cell-mediated cytot...
With over 265,000 new cases per year and over 50,000 deaths, breast and ovarian cancers represent a significant health burden in the USA. Prior work has demonstrated that CD4 helper T c...
There is considerable excitement surrounding the treatment potential of T cell immunotherapies. Amongst these, CAR-T cells have demonstrated impressive therapeutic efficacy in a subset of hem...
DATE: September 20 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Harnessing the immune system has emerged as a powerful therapeutic strategy in oncology. However, the limited...
DATE: September 18,2018TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing strategies have revolutionized our ability to engineer the genomes of diverse cell types and sp...
DATE: September 12, 2018 TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT In the last presentation of this webinar series, we will continue our discussions on recent advancements i...
DATE: August, 16, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDTThis webinar will review recent advancements in the application of next-generation sequencing of T cell receptor beta (TCRB) chain repertoires towards...
DATE: August 8, 2018 TIME: 1:00pm PDT, 4:00pm EDT To kick off our three-part immuno-oncology webinar series, Dr. Cawley will highlight recent advancements driven...
DATE: August 7, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDTWe are currently at an exciting precipice in clinical oncology management, where an increased rate of biomarker identification is drivi...
DATE: April 26, 2018TIME: 8:00am PST, 11:00am EST Engineered T cells expressing a tumor antigen-specific receptor have revolutionized the field of cancer therap...
DATE: April 4, 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm CEST Multiplex is the ability to characterize three or more biomarkers on a single tissue section. The technique enables the combi...
It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...