All Posts: T cells

• New Understanding of How to Harness the Immune System to Fight Cancer

  Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a new way to reprogram T cells, which are infection and tumor-fighting white blood cells, so that they have a superior memory, thereby making them more effective in killing cancer cells.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, immunotherapy, T cells, The Loop Immunology and Immunotherapy Laboratory

• Boosting Stem Cell Activity Can Enhance Immunotherapy Benefits

  WASHINGTON (November 23, 2020) — Immune-system T cells have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory (TSCM) cells that are long-lived, highly active “super immune cells” with strong antitumor activity, according to new research from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The reprogramming involves a novel approach the researchers developed that inhibits the activity of proteins […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer research, immunotherapy, T cells, The Loop Immunology and Immunotherapy Laboratory