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How Unique Immune Cells Can Recognize and Destroy Tumors

How Unique Immune Cells Can Recognize and Destroy Tumors

  By Sarah C.P. Williams, Gladstone Institutes  San Francisco- Gamma delta T cells, a special type of cell in the immune system, are incredibly effective at recognizing and killing cancer cells. Cancer patients with higher levels of these T cells in their tumors...

Maryn McKenna Awarded 2023 Victor Cohn Prize

Maryn McKenna Awarded 2023 Victor Cohn Prize

Los Angeles— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck), senior writer at WIRED and a widely published journalist and author specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, has been selected to receive the 2023 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science...

How Convergence Unlocks Innovation at the USC Michelson Center

How Convergence Unlocks Innovation at the USC Michelson Center

"What we've been involved in is the first purpose-built convergence Science Center. Many of us have talked about convergent science and interdisciplinary science, and as Gary has mentioned, we've been very good at building silos and separating things into little...

Advancing Immunology and Vaccine Innovation ePanel

Advancing Immunology and Vaccine Innovation ePanel

On March 24, 2023, Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants laureates Dr. Jenna Guthmiller, Dr. Brittany Hartwell, Dr. Noam Auslander, and Romain Guyon were honored for their disruptive and innovative human immunology research during a Keystone Symposia ePanel.  ...

Romain Guyon Researches Single-Dose Rabies Vaccines

Romain Guyon Researches Single-Dose Rabies Vaccines

Romain Guyon, a Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford, has been recognized with the 2022 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grant for his work developing a single-dose vaccination against rabies. Michelson Next Generation Grants, which are awarded annually to...

Dr. Noam Auslander’s AI Methods for Cancer Research

Dr. Noam Auslander’s AI Methods for Cancer Research

Dr. Noam Auslander, an Assistant Professor at The Wistar Institute, has been awarded the 2022 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grant for her work in artificial intelligence and immunology. Auslander is developing machine...