New project to ATTACK cancer

Published: 9-Dec-2005

A new research project, spending around €12m in EU money, will investigate how cancer cells evade the human immune system, possibly leading to new treatments.


A new research project, spending around €12m in EU money, will investigate how cancer cells evade the human immune system, possibly leading to new treatments.

An international consortium of 16 partners, co-ordinated by the UK's University of Manchester and including Oxford Biomedica, will collaborate in the five-year ATTACK (adoptive engineered T-cell targeting to activate cancer killing) project. It seeks to refine T-cell mediated immunotherapy, which engineers T-cells with artificial receptors targeting tumours.

  

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