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From Bangladesh to Melbourne …… via Perth

Ms Rasa Islam is Cartherics’ first full-time PhD student. She’s joining the team under a prestigious Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Project Grant entitled “Allogeneic Stem Cell Cancer immunotherapies”.

As part of the CRC-P Program, Cartherics offers high calibre students PhD research programs of study that include international level research training, […]

2019-03-27T00:13:22+11:00March 25th, 2019|

Australia is handicapped in the delivery of cell therapies, says Alan Trounson

THE promise is remarkable: a new class of affordable, effective cancer treatments beyond surgery, chemotherapy, biologicals and radiation. Imagine cancer specialists being able to select from a range of treatments to supercharge a patient’s immune system, helping it eliminate cancer.

This is not a distant vision. It is happening right here, right now. A research team, […]

2019-03-21T01:00:32+11:00March 21st, 2019|

Safer cells for immunotherapy

Cartherics Pty Ltd teams up with Canada’s panCELLa Inc to bring the power of safe cell therapy to a greater number of patients.

Cartherics and panCELLa announce collaborative agreement to develop pluripotent cell lines for cell therapy. Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada – 13 February 2019

Cartherics Pty Ltd (“Cartherics”) and panCELLa Inc. (“panCELLa”) are pleased to announce […]

2019-02-13T05:02:22+11:00February 13th, 2019|

Eradicate Cancer 2020 – Next frontiers in immunotherapy

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 25-27 March 2020

“Success Breeds Success”

The field of immunotherapy against cancers is making unprecedented progress. The Eradicate Cancer Conference “Can advanced immunotherapy make it possible?” held in March 2018 was a resounding success.

It […]

2019-07-22T04:00:07+10:00January 29th, 2019|

New cancer immunotherapy approach turns immune cells into tiny anti-tumor drug factories

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoc–nci120418.php

In lab and mouse experiments, UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers developed a method to leverage B cells to manufacture and secrete tumor-suppressing microRNAs

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO

Cancer immunotherapy — efforts to better arm a patient’s own immune system to attack tumors — has shown great potential for treating some […]

2018-12-20T02:44:33+11:00December 20th, 2018|

‘Revolutionary’ cancer drug using genetically modified cells approved (Kymriah)

Sydney Morning Herald (By Esther Han)

19 December 2018 — 12:00am

https://www.smh.com.au/national/revolutionary-cancer-drug-using-genetically-modified-cells-approved-20181217-p50msk.html

A revolutionary cancer therapy that supercharges a patient’s immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer cells has been approved for use in Australia, ushering in a new era in medicine.

Desperate patients with aggressive blood cancers who have not responded to conventional treatments have been heading […]

2018-12-20T00:05:33+11:00December 19th, 2018|

Meet our newest recruit

Research Assistant Callum Docherty explains why immunology is his passion and advancing cancer therapy is his goal.

I’ve always had an insatiable curiosity and a passion for big-picture ideas.  Growing up both my mother and grandmother had cancer.  After such an early confrontation with the absence of health — something most of us take for granted […]

2018-12-18T02:01:36+11:00December 18th, 2018|

Come Hell Or High Water

Cartherics Communications Adviser Leigh Dayton reveals the lengths Cartherics co-founder and immunologist Richard Boyd will go to for a good conversation.

It was a dark and stormy night.  OK, that’s a slight exaggeration, but it was the day Richard Boyd was flying from Melbourne to Sydney […]

2018-12-04T04:02:22+11:00December 4th, 2018|
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