She is awarded the Sjöberg Prize for laying the foundations of a cancer vaccine
Source: Karolinska Institutet, March 2024
Catherine J. Wu, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA, is a pioneer in research that may result in the development of personalised vaccines to treat cancer. She is now awarded the Sjöberg Prize, worth one million US dollars, for her work. Catherine J. Wu will give a lecture in Aula Medica at KI on April 12 in connection with the Karolinska CCC Day.
This year’s Sjöberg Prize awards discoveries about how the body’s immune system can be activated and stimulated to fight cancer. These discoveries make it possible to develop vaccines that are personalised to each patient’s unique tumour.
In a not-too-distant future, vaccines of this type could be offered to a large group of patients with types of cancers that are currently difficult or impossible to cure.