News and Views


Nature Medicine 13, 1411 - 1413 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1207-1411

Building the bionic T cell

Drew M Pardoll1

  1. Drew M. Pardoll is Abeloff Professor of Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA. e-mail: dmpardol@jhmi.edu


Adoptive T cell transfer studies in mice and in cancer patients have shown substantial potential, but also major barriers, for successful therapeutic outcomes. A new strategy may overcome some of these barriers. T cells can now be engineered with 'autocostimulation' properties along with chimeric receptors specific for tumor antigens (pages 1440–1449).

Top


MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS

These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.

NEWS AND VIEWS

Tumor reactive T cells get a boost

Nature Biotechnology Research News (01 Dec 2002)

Cancer T cell therapy expands

Nature Medicine News and Views (01 Mar 2003)


Extra navigation

Subscribe to Nature Medicine

Subscribe

Search PubMed for

Open Innovation Challenges

naturejobs

natureproducts


ADVERTISEMENT