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Rebecca Delconte Rebecca Delconte is a postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of immunologist Joseph Sun in the Sloan Kettering Institute. She is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at MSK Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will provide two years of financial support. Dr. Delconte’s research focuses on the metabolic pathways of immune cells called natural killer (NK) cells, which play an important role in controlling cancer. In an interview in March 2021, she spoke about what motivates her as a scientist and how she came to her specifi...

Study may help develop more effective personalized immunotherapy for cancer patients New research from CU Cancer Center member Jing Hong Wang, MD, PhD, and recent University of Colorado Immunology program graduate Rachel Woolaver, PhD, may help researchers develop more effective personalized immunotherapy for cancer patients. Working within Wang's specialty of cancer immunology and head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs), the researchers worked to establish a mouse model that would help them understand why some hosts' immune systems reject tumors easily, while others have a harder tim...

1 / of 2 Australia has detected its first case of the South African variant of coronavirus in hotel quarantine. What do we know? Posted TueTuesday 29 updated WedWednesday 30 DecDecember 2020 at 5:29am Australia's first case of the "more transmissible" South African strain of coronavirus has been detected in a woman in hotel quarantine. ( Share Print text only Cancel As coronavirus infections in South Africa continue to surge, Australia has detected its first case of a new, potentially fast-spreading variant linked to the country. Queensland authorities yesterday announced a woman who had tes...