Delighted to share our new approach to enhance CAR T cell function in solid tumours published today @Nature. In this work we identify a new strategy to generate armoured CAR T cells. https://t.co/DvqTLOR9Da
♋#UWA research has advanced the development of cancer treatments that enable immune cells to fight tumours more effectively. 🔬 @NewnesHannah@UWAresearch@TheKids_AU
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https://t.co/npkh9qn2Is
Same, same, but different! ✨
Did you know humans make >15 unique type I IFNs? In this head-to-head battle we shine light on some underappreciated subtypes with a stronger capacity for boosting NK cell function than IFNa2.. plus it's also the first story to come out of my PhD!
PhD students aren't students in the traditional sense. They are conducting real research.
They are contributing a huge amount of the total labour of our academic research, underpaid and undervalued on two-thirds of the minimum wage https://t.co/on3gjoHjuu via @ConversationEDU
Biologist David Sabatini, who has been forced out of or fired from three leading institutions for sexual misconduct, may now be hired by the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. https://t.co/d6cGjY5MpU
Cancer researcher & head of the Cancer Immunotherapy Group @TelethonKids, Dr Jason Waithman, has been named the @CancerCouncilWA 2021 Cancer Researcher of the Year. Congratulations Dr Waithman.
Read more: https://t.co/Vn5q6PXJKf
#TelethonKidsInstitute#CancerCouncilWA
If you think the restrictions or getting vaccinated is hard, imagine being a patient or a HCW turning up to hospital and seeing this. This is what we are facing in parts of Melbourne at present. #COVID19Vic
Great talk by #EMCR Dr Jesse Armitage on the tumour microenvironment and "overheated" type 1 interferon signalling tumours.
Systems Immunology & Cancer Centre @telethonkids @ozsinglecell #systemsbiology
The Animal Resources Centre (ARC), which stores and supplies many animal strains to researchers in Australia, just announced they will cease operations over the next 12-18 months 😲 (they are the Australian equivalent of the American Jackson Laboratory)