What's the Latest in Cancer Therapy? Immunotherapy Research Leader Dr. Carl June to Speak at UC San Diego, May 14
(PRWEB) April 04, 2014 -- A world leader in immunotherapy, Carl June, will discuss the emergence of a new form of targeted immunotherapy to treat cancer, Wednesday, May 14, 5:30 pm to 7 pm., at UC San Diego.
June, professor of immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss his pioneering work and also the barriers and challenges to bring this paradigm-shifting treatment into routine medical practice.
Co-presented by the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology and UC San Diego Extension, and with support from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the seminar will be held in the Mandell Weiss Theatre of the La Jolla Playhouse at UC San Diego, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037.
This type of cell-based, targeted immunotherapy has become one of the most exciting new approaches to treating cancer, stimulating the biotechnology and pharma industries to develop the means to deliver the therapy to patients.
The treatment involves using the patient’s own T lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) that are genetically engineered to attack the cancer.
When effective, the treatment of immunotherapy appears to be curative. Dr. June’s team was the first to use these engineered “T cells” to treat a young girl with acute leukemia. Now, more than18 months since her treatment, she remains cancer-free.
Dr. June will outline the barriers and challenges in bringing this paradigm-shifting treatment into routine medical practice, as applied in treating blood cancers, skin cancers and other previously untreatable cancers such as metastatic lung cancer.
As part of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology Series, his presentation is the fifth themed on Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2010 Pulitzer-Prize winning book about cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies.”
Pre-registration on the Ethics Center website is requested: http://www.ethicscenter.net/EmperorMay2014.
John Freeman, UC San Diego Extension, http://extension.ucsd.edu, 858-534-9955 Ext: 49955, [email protected]
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