Immune 4: Putting the immunotherapy CAR T before the cancer

The immu-knowledge-ists deconstruct the holy grail of oncologists, cancer immunotherapy, and the exciting development of CAR T cells and how they work.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Links for this episode

• Synthetic Immunoreceptors for Cancer Therapy (Trend Mol Med)
• Engineering immune cells to treat cancer (Cell)
• Engineering T cells for fungal infections (PNAS)
• CAR T cells for AIDS (PLoS Path)
• CAR T cells (NIH)
• Image credit
• Letters read on Immune #4

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