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The Scientists Who Turned Cancer Prevention into a Vaccine: Dr Douglas Lowy and Dr John Schiller
The 2026 Pezcoller Foundation–AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research has recognised two scientists whose discoveries reshaped one of oncology’s greatest ambitions: preventing cancer before it begins. On 9 May, at the Teatro Sociale in Trento, Italy, Dr…
Personalised neoantigen vaccine for kidney cancer shows promise in phase 1 study
Personalised neoantigen cancer vaccines (both with and without ipilimumab) elicited anticancer immune responses in nine patients with fully resected clear cell renal cell carcinoma. The investigator-initiated phase 1 trial, published in Nature, February 5 2025, observed no recurrences at a…