UPMC Hillman Immunologist Receives Holzer Research Award
physician-scientist Leisha A. Emens, M.D., Ph.D., has been presented with the Sy Holzer Endowed Immunotherapy Research Fund Award to advance innovative research in cancer. Internationally recognized for her work in breast cancer immunotherapy, Emens is co-leader of the Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program and director of Translational Immunotherapy for the Women’s Cancer Research Center at UPMC Hillman. Emens has developed innovative combination immunotherapies that incorporate cancer vaccines, immune checkpoint inhibitors and other immune modulators with standard and novel treatme...