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New ‘Immunoprofiler’ Initiative will Advance Drug Discovery, Precision Immunotherapy for Cancer – UCSF News Services

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2017-01-20 NEWS

New ‘Immunoprofiler’ Initiative will Advance Drug Discovery, Precision Immunotherapy for Cancer
UCSF News Services
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients’ responses to cancer immunotherapy and to increase the effectiveness of immunotherapy across a wider range of …

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2017-01-20 NEWS

UCSF News Services

New ‘Immunoprofiler’ Initiative will Advance Drug Discovery, Precision Immunotherapy for Cancer
UCSF News Services
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients’ responses to cancer immunotherapy and to increase the effectiveness of immunotherapy across a wider range of …

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2017-01-19 NEWS

Philadelphia Business Journal

Transformations: Spark Therapeutics racing for a gene therapy first
Philadelphia Business Journal
Early last year, Spark Therapeutics began the process of filing a “rolling” biologics license application for its gene therapy candidate. Subscribe to get the full story. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Subscribe to get the full story. Already a

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2017-01-19 NEWS

Genetic Literacy Project

Stem cells lay foundation for treatments of cancer, other disorders
Genetic Literacy Project
[Stem cell research] is now considered among the most seminal medical findings of the past century, on a par with the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick.] Stem cells not only revolutionized the treatment
California stem cell agency has funded just a trickle of clinical trialsSTAT
Stem cell ‘marking’ study offers alterative hypothesis of cancer metastasisScience Daily
Stem Cell Research Products – Opportunities, Tools, and Technologies 2016Medgadget (blog)
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2017-01-19 NEWS

Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)

Film Clips: Thursday, Jan. 19
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“PASSENGERS”: HH1/2 On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim and Aurora face living the rest of their lives on board with …

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2017-01-19 NEWS

Scope (blog)

Successful immunotherapy requires a body-wide response, say Stanford researchers
Scope (blog)
27125551111_09d5b37fa4_k Harnessing a patient’s immune system to tackle tumors seems like a no-brainer. Why wouldn’t we avail ourselves of such a natural, already-in-the-trenches, weapon? And much recent research points to the potential …
Bodywide immune response important for fighting cancer, researchers sayMedical Xpress

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