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a cancer-free future.
Unlike surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, cell and gene therapies harness the power of your immune system to destroy cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. We fund the research that will make this vision a reality.
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Cell and gene therapies harness the power of a patient’s own immune system to destroy cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.
Crystal Mackall, MD
Stanford University
Training CAR T cells to find and kill cancers that express the GD2 biomarker, including osteosarcoma, pediatric neuroblastoma and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
Matthias Stephan, MD, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Advancing pre-clinical strategies that combine principles of bioengineering with gene therapy to improve the effectiveness of therapeutic cancer vaccines.
Brian Brown, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Working to harness the power of gene therapy to equip a patient’s own T cells to kill immune-suppressing cells.
Sidi Chen, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
Taking on the challenges of pancreatic cancer with an innovative, versatile and highly scalable CRISPRa strategy.
Crystal Mackall, MD
Stanford University
Training CAR T cells to find and kill cancers that express the GD2 biomarker, including osteosarcoma, pediatric neuroblastoma and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
Matthias Stephan, MD, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Advancing pre-clinical strategies that combine principles of bioengineering with gene therapy to improve the effectiveness of therapeutic cancer vaccines.
Brian Brown, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Working to harness the power of gene therapy to equip a patient’s own T cells to kill immune-suppressing cells.
Sidi Chen, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
Taking on the challenges of pancreatic cancer with an innovative, versatile and highly scalable CRISPRa strategy.
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