Clinical Trials Arena August 30, 2024
Research infrastructure provides the resources and expertise to invest into the immuno-oncology space.
Cancer vaccines work by stimulating the body’s immune system to recognise and attack cancer cells.
There are different types of cancer vaccines, including preventive vaccines that aim to stop cancer from developing in the first place, and therapeutic vaccines that are used to treat existing cancer. An example of a therapeutic vaccine would be chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapies. CAR-T is a form of immunotherapy that involves genetically modifying a patient’s T cells to recognise and attack cancer cells. T cells are a type of immune cell that can detect and destroy abnormal cells in the body. T cells are collected from a patient’s blood,...