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cell therapy
Building a Clinical Trial in a Country at War: What Lviv Taught Us
What does it take to bring a complex cell-therapy trial to an intensive care unit in a country at war? Thiago Favano travelled to Lviv expecting to assess whether it could be done. He came away with a different understanding…
CancerWorld | PICI– Special Issue 2026
10 Years of PICI: From Discovery to Impact Ten years ago, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) was created around a bold premise: that progress in cancer research could be accelerated by changing not only what science pursued, but…
Rethinking Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer: A Universal Approach
Chimeric antigen receptor natural killer T (CAR-NKT) cell therapy, a novel form of immunotherapy, is emerging as a promising ‘off-the-shelf’ treatment for patients with pancreatic cancer. In a study published in PNAS, November 21, 2025, U.S. investigators report that CAR-NKT cells…