Immunotherapy News and Research

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Einstein researchers awarded $2.6 million NIH grant to develop effective cancer immunotherapies

The National Institutes of Health has awarded two co-investigators at Albert Einstein College of Medicine a five-year, $2.6 million grant to make immunotherapy agents that more precisely and effectively treat a variety of cancers while causing far fewer side effects than current immunotherapies.

20 Oct 2016

CHLA receives grant to study effects of chemoimmunotherapy in childhood neuroblastoma

A team of investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles has received a major, three-year grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research to study the effects of chemoimmunotherapy in children with neuroblastoma.

18 Oct 2016

Chemotherapy leads to drug-resistance in bladder cancer patients

Chemotherapy is indicated as the first line of treatment for advanced bladder cancer. New research by Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Trento scientists shows that while chemotherapy kills the most common type of bladder cancer, urothelial cancer, chemotherapy also shapes the genetic evolution of remaining urothelial cancer cell clones to become drug-resistant.

18 Oct 2016

NAC improves effectiveness of adoptive cell therapy for treating melanoma

A collaborative team of investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina and Loyola University have demonstrated for the first time that culturing T cells in N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) before they are infused as immunotherapy improves effectiveness and outcomes in a preclinical model of melanoma. These findings were reported in the October 15, 2016 issue of Cancer Research.

17 Oct 2016

Long-term clinical data, experience supports effectiveness of PRRT for treating neuroendocrine tumors

More than ten years of published clinical data and personal experience using PRRT-based targeted therapy of neuroendocrine tumors supports the effectiveness of this novel treatment approach and the ability to minimize and manage potential toxic side effects.

17 Oct 2016

FAAM 2016: Experts discuss advancements in diagnosis, management of food allergies and anaphylaxis

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has announced today the inauguration of its 4th Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Meeting (FAAM), hosting over 1,200 international researchers, clinicians and allied health professionals in Rome from 13–15 October 2016.

14 Oct 2016

Mount Sinai awarded $10 million grant to explore cellular, molecular mechanisms of GVHD

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $10 million from the National Cancer Institute to explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a common side effect that occurs after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT), and to develop novel therapeutic strategies for BMT patients with cancer that begin in the cells of blood-forming tissue or hematologic malignancies.

13 Oct 2016

Houston Methodist researcher receives $4 million to create triple negative breast cancer immunotherapy

Scientists at Houston Methodist received support from the U.S. Department of Defense to reprogram cancer patients' immune cells to attack triple negative breast cancer, the most lethal form of breast cancer.

13 Oct 2016

Study suggests possibility for small molecule drug/antibody combinatorial therapy to treat neuroblastoma

A study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles sheds further light on the role of the cytokine TGFβ1 in the growth of neuroblastoma, and suggests the possibility for a small molecule drug/antibody combinatorial therapy to treat this cancer.

12 Oct 2016

Immunotherapy redefines treatment approach for metastatic bladder cancer patients

Immunotherapy has shown promising results in first and second line treatment of metastatic bladder cancer in two phase II trials presented at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen.

8 Oct 2016

Researchers explain why explain why some tumors recur after immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a new and highly promising form of treatment for cancer. In many patients, however, tumors recur after immunotherapy.

7 Oct 2016

Survey reveals inequalities in access to new, life saving drugs for melanoma in Europe

Over 5000 patients with metastatic melanoma in Europe are denied access to new, life saving drugs every year, according to a survey presented at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen.

7 Oct 2016

Study finds neoadjuvant immunotherapy safe, viable for early lung cancer patients before surgery

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab is safe and feasible prior to surgery for early lung cancer, researchers reported at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen.

7 Oct 2016

Women may have better verbal memory skills than men during early stages of Alzheimer's disease

Women may have better verbal memory skills than men even when their brains show the same level of problems metabolizing glucose, which occurs in people with Alzheimer's disease, according to research published in the October 5, 2016, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

5 Oct 2016

New study reveals CAR T cells can function as micro-pharmacies for precise therapeutic delivery

There has been much recent excitement about immunotherapy and the use of genetically engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells.

30 Sep 2016

Immunotherapy already in clinical trials for cancer could slow progression of Parkinson's disease

Researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have identified a protein that enables a toxic natural aggregate to spread from cell to cell in a mammal's brain — and a way to block that protein's action.

29 Sep 2016

Recycling existing drugs may help fight several types of cancer

Researchers at the University of Bergen have discovered that a drug against kidney cancer possibly can fight several types of cancer.

29 Sep 2016

T-Bear brings hope to kids diagnosed with cancer at Seattle Children's Hospital

He may not be able to fly, or be as fast as the speed of light, but for children who have been diagnosed with cancer at Seattle Children's, the cuddly teddy bear who wears a mask and purple cape is still a super hero to them - he gives them strength.

28 Sep 2016

Single high-intensity SBRT dose can be effective in treating early stage NSCLC patients

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a specialized and highly targeted method of delivering radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, to treat cancer.

28 Sep 2016

Combination of different drugs could improve effect of immunotherapy on skin cancer

The results of studies involving researchers from the MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center show that the effect of immunotherapy on malignant melanoma (black skin cancer) can be improved by combining it with other cancer treatments.

27 Sep 2016

Immunotherapy News and Research

Latest Immunotherapy News and Research

Einstein researchers awarded $2.6 million NIH grant to develop effective cancer immunotherapies

CHLA receives grant to study effects of chemoimmunotherapy in childhood neuroblastoma

Chemotherapy leads to drug-resistance in bladder cancer patients

NAC improves effectiveness of adoptive cell therapy for treating melanoma

Long-term clinical data, experience supports effectiveness of PRRT for treating neuroendocrine tumors

FAAM 2016: Experts discuss advancements in diagnosis, management of food allergies and anaphylaxis

Mount Sinai awarded $10 million grant to explore cellular, molecular mechanisms of GVHD

Houston Methodist researcher receives $4 million to create triple negative breast cancer immunotherapy

Study suggests possibility for small molecule drug/antibody combinatorial therapy to treat neuroblastoma

Immunotherapy redefines treatment approach for metastatic bladder cancer patients

Researchers explain why explain why some tumors recur after immunotherapy

Survey reveals inequalities in access to new, life saving drugs for melanoma in Europe

Study finds neoadjuvant immunotherapy safe, viable for early lung cancer patients before surgery

Women may have better verbal memory skills than men during early stages of Alzheimer's disease

New study reveals CAR T cells can function as micro-pharmacies for precise therapeutic delivery

Immunotherapy already in clinical trials for cancer could slow progression of Parkinson's disease

Recycling existing drugs may help fight several types of cancer

T-Bear brings hope to kids diagnosed with cancer at Seattle Children's Hospital

Single high-intensity SBRT dose can be effective in treating early stage NSCLC patients

Combination of different drugs could improve effect of immunotherapy on skin cancer

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