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Chance leads to breakthrough for UW researchers in fight against cancer
Dr. Krishanu Saha and Dr. Dan Cappabianca are featured on a news clip on Channel3000.
Postdoc Highlight: Combining computation and gene therapy for Alzheimer’s treatments
Postdoc Highlight: Kirstan Gimse has taken her passion for investigating neurodegenerative diseases and pushed it into a new area by working as a Genomic Sciences Training Program (GSTP) Postdoctoral trainee with Drs. Sushmita Roy and Krishanu Saha.
Unconventional paths and microbial communities
Unconventional paths and microbial communities - postdoc highlight of Margaret Thairu. "The overall goal of my current projects is to better understand microbial community function."
Serendipity reveals new method to fight cancer with T cells
A promising therapy that treats blood cancers by harnessing the power of the immune system to target and destroy cancer cells could now treat solid tumors more efficiently. Thanks to a recent study from Dan Cappabianca and Krishanu Saha at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery published in Molecular Therapy – Methods & Clinical Development, Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy can be improved by altering the conditions the T cells are grown in. And it was all discovered by chance.
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