Cancer immunologist: MD Anderson provides culture of collaboration, not competition
I¡¯ve always been interested in how to jump-start the immune system. My curiosity led me to train as a postdoc under Jim Allison, Ph.D., in New York. He¡¯s an immunotherapy pioneer who received a Nobel Prize for his work in 2018.
While working in his lab, we successfully drove immune response to what we call immune ¡°hot cancers¡± like melanoma and lung cancer. But most patients with other types of cancer weren¡¯t benefiting ¨C and many...
