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<p>Wistar’s David B. Weiner, Ph.D., and collaborators, have engineered novel monoclonal antibodies that engage Natural Killer cells through a unique surface receptor that activates the immune system to fight against cancer. </p>
Novel human Siglec-7 monoclonal and bispecific antibodies are being developed as potential future cancer immunotherapies...
Date Time Penn Medicine Awarded Nearly $7 Million for First Year of Contract to Study Influenza Viruses PHILADELPHIA— The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has selected Penn Medicine as one of five sites across the country to serve as a Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR), with the goal of better understanding influenza viruses around the world along with learning about the viral strains that have the potential to cause pandemics. Penn Medicine has been awarded nearly $7 million in first-yea...
Date Time New research identifies which T cells patrol body The blood is the main source of studies on the immune system, despite the fact that most diseases are combated by immune cells in the body’s tissues. A new study from Karolinska Institutet and the University of Pennsylvania has identified which immune cells patrol the human body’s tissues and circulate back into the blood. The study, which is published in Cell, shows that not all T cells do this – some are found mostly in the blood where they constitute a unique part of our immune system. The white blood cells known as T cells ...