Immunotherapy Archives

October 10, 2024 Disrupting Asxl1 gene prevents T-cell exhaustion, improving immunotherapy

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Oct. 10, 2024) — Immunotherapy, using a patient’s own immune system to treat disease, has shown promise in some patients with cancer but…

June 26, 2024 New research aims to improve cancer immunotherapy

To say that immunotherapies have been a game-changer for cancer feels like an incredible understatement.

These powerful treatments, which work by bolstering the immune…

October 11, 2017 Stand Up To Cancer awards $5.5 million to VARI for cancer clinical trials to enhance immunotherapy

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Oct. 12, 2017)—Van Andel Research Institute–Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetics Dream Team (VARI-SU2C) scientists have been awarded two…

February 2, 2017 In their own words: The most exciting advances in cancer research

In honor of World Cancer Day on Saturday, we asked our scientists and collaborators a simple question—what do you think is…

August 26, 2015 Researchers thwart cancer cells by triggering 'virus alert'

Note: This press release was written by John Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Stephen Baylin, who holds a joint appointment at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and at…