Scientists in Britain led by a Greek hematologist developed and started testing a new stronger anti-cancer immunotherapy. The researchers created a new kind of “turbo” immune cell with a genetic modification, CAR19-iNKT, which could be massively produced in the future and used in cancer patients....
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Georgia Chatzivassiliou is a Senior Scientist at Genentech, a biotechnology organization, in the areas of immunotherapy for cancer treatment and Translational Oncology, and is also a postdoc mentor. She received a bachelors degree in Biochemistry at Oberlin College in the US and a Ph.D. at...
The Greek scientist who made patient’s cancer disappear
[:el]Nikos Zacharakis is a scientist from Patra, Greece, who works with a group of researchers who managed to eliminate end-stage breast cancer for the first time in a 49-year-old woman who had three months left. The experimental treatment on which the Greek scientist and his...
Forerunner in the development of cancer immunotherapy
[:el] Maria Themeli is a CCA Fellow-Assistant Professor at VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam. The young Greek researcher is a forerunner in the development of cancer immunotherapy. In 2017, she was selected as “Woman of the year” in Netherlands for her groundbreaking research. Viva400 is a...
Greek “signature” in the fight against cancer
[:el] Anna-Maria Georgoudaki is a promising Researcher in the field of Biomedicine, trying to find new methods to improve the immune system for better cancer prevention. Anna-Maria comes from the greek island of Kos. She is currently a post doc Researcher at the Rockefeller University...
Top-class researcher in tumor immunology and immunotherapy
[:el] George Coukos is the Director of Ludwig Lausanne, Director of the Swiss Cancer Center Lausanne and Professor at the University of Lausanne. Much of his career was as a clinician and cancer researcher but he has focused his work on immunotherapy and the exploration...