Dr. William Murphy Distinguished Prof., Vice Chair of Research for Dermatology and Internal Medicine departments discusses cancer immunotherapy. In this talk, he shares the progress with cancer immunotherapy, especially the CAR-T cells and how this technology represents a brave new frontier.
The following topics are discussed:
What are CAR-T cells?
Empowering the T cells and NK cells against cancers.
Engineering CAR-T cells.
Why T cells?
What cells are the sources of CARs?
How CAR are built?
Mechanism of action.