S4E08: Learning from Vaccines: Training our Immune System to Fight Cancer
Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar
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Cancer Vaccine
I've always been interested by how the immune system is primed and how we can generate T-cell responses against a given antigen. I was particularly interested in down-retic cells which have these unique features that make them excellent at priming T-cells. And so from there, it's just easy to think about how we can manipulate the antigen or we can rationally design a vaccine based on our understanding of how theimmune system work. So where do you see this going in the future? I think a simple answer is vaccines as a component of combination therapies.
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