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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honour the following cancer researchers, physician-scientists, advocates, and journalists during its annual meeting to be held April 14-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. June’s award lecture will be held on Sunday April 16 at 4:30pm ET.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 1

Drug Discovery World

On Day 1, Tuesday 14 November 2023, the tracks include: Display of biologics, antibody-based cancer therapies, safety and efficacy of bispecific antibodies, modulating the tumour microenvironment, optimisation and developability, and cell line and systems engineering. from engineered peptide and antibody libraries’.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

Drug Discovery World

On Day 3, Thursday 16 November 2023, the tracks include: the second part of machine learning for protein engineering, antibodies against membrane protein targets, engineering bispecific antibodies, next-generation immunotherapies, protein stability and formulation, and protein process development.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato October 11, 2023 In 2011, Robert Manguso was working in a cell biology lab when his mother was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer. They are used to treat cancers including melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer, but work only for a small fraction of patients.

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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Codon Digest: CAR-T Therapy for Neuroblastoma

Codon

This is Codon Digest, my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about the future of biology. Nucleic Acids Research. Read An engineered HIV-1 Gag-based VLP displaying high antigen density induces strong antibody-dependent functional immune responses. Nature Cell Biology.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

Codon

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. This looks like an early step toward a much different future for biology: One in which natural language is used to design experiments, program robots, and automate experiments in high-throughput. Nature Cell Biology.