SUPER-CHARGING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT CANCER
Innovative immunotherapies for cancer are a step closer to reality thanks to an agreement between Australia’s Cartherics Pty Ltd and Seoul-based ToolGen Inc.
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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
Cancer immunotherapy — efforts to better arm a patient’s own immune system to attack tumors — has shown great potential for treating some […]
‘Revolutionary’ cancer drug using genetically modified cells approved (Kymriah)
Sydney Morning Herald (By Esther Han)
19 December 2018 — 12:00am
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Beautiful Cure’ Reveals The ‘Profound’ Power Of The Immune System
An interview with UK immunologist Daniel Davis on national Public Radio’s “Fresh Air” is a good discussion about his new book for a general audience.
November 26, 20181:51 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air
Immunologist Daniel Davis says scientists are harnessing the power of the immune system to create new medications […]
Cartherics Corporate Adviser Dr Ian Nisbet talks about ‘what pisses him off’
WHAT PISSES ME OFF
When it comes to taking ideas to market, Corporate Advisor Ian Nisbet says America’s entrepreneurial ethos leaves risk-averse Australia in the innovation dust.
I’VE WORKED my whole career in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry. Sometimes in business development, sometimes in drug development, sometimes in project management, sometimes in […]
Communications Adviser Leigh Dayton talks to Cartherics Scientific Board member Jacques Miller – the man who discovered the function of the thymus gland yet didn’t win the Nobel Prize.
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IMMUNOLOGIST Jacques Miller did not win this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He didn’t win it last year or the year before that. In fact, the French-born Australian has […]
Communications Adviser Leigh Dayton talked with cancer immunologist Ashleigh Unsworth
WELCOME to The Pipeline, the place where Cartherics team members share occasional news and views.
To get things rolling, Communications Adviser Leigh Dayton talked with cancer immunologist Ashleigh Unsworth, Cartherics’ latest recruit. Ashleigh joins the company from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre where she conducted breast cancer research while […]
