Advanced Cell Therapy Eliminates Aggressive Leukemia in Two Children
The investigators, Stephen A. Grupp, MD, PhD and Carl H. June, MD, engineered T cells — the workhorses of the immune system, which recognized and attack invading disease cells — to selectively kill...
View ArticleHat Trick! Cell Therapy Expert Scores Trio of Honors
It has been a busy few weeks for The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Stephan Grupp, MD, PhD. Dr. Grupp, the director of Translational Research at the Center for Childhood Cancer Research,...
View ArticleBenefits Persist in T Cell Therapy for Children with Relapsed Leukemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer and the most common childhood leukemia. Some patients with ALL have a highly aggressive form of the disease, one that causes...
View ArticleCookies for Kids’ Cancer Funds Support Rapid Discovery of New Therapies
What comes from a “Box of Hope?” Inside you will find three kinds of scrumptious cookies, but what you are truly unwrapping is the potential for pediatric cancer researchers to advance novel treatments...
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