Immunotherapy - Pancreatic Cancer Treatment - Archives

How Chickenpox and Fruit Flies Can Help Shape a Career

Drs. Avery Posey and Dannielle Engle are the inaugural winners of the Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Career Development Awards for Pancreatic Cancer Research in Honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Lewis.

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AACR Highlights: Saturday, September 7

Read the highlights of Saturday's sessions about tumor microenvironment, recurrence, and treatment resistance, at the AACR pancreatic cancer conference.

Keytruda Runner-Up for Science Breakthrough of the Year

The Lustgarten Foundation shares the story that Keytruda (pembrolizumab) is a runner-up in Science magazine's Breakthrough of the year.

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New SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation Research Team Aims to Apply CAR T Cell Therapy to Pancreatic Cancer

The approach is called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, which uses specially modified immune cells to find and…

Caris Life Sciences and The Lustgarten Foundation Collaborate to Support Immunotherapy Clinical Trial for Pancreatic Cancer

Caris is providing clinical trial enrollment services to identify potential trial candidates based on biomarker expression results and facilitate communication…

Pancreatic cancer researcher Ron Evans (left) and his research team: Mara Sherman, Ruth Yu, Ann Atkins, Tiffany Tseng, Michael Downes

Pancreatic Tumors Rely on Signals from Surrounding Cells

Now, Salk scientists have pinned down how signals from this microenvironment encourage pancreatic tumors to grow by altering their metabolism.…