It’s what’s on the outside that counts

Source: AS BMB Today, February 2022

Victor H. Engelhard will speak at the ASBMB annual meeting’s Molecular & Cellular Proteomics session.

In the same way that how people dress can help us identify or recognize them, what cells wear on the outside allows our immune response to recognize them as cancerous or not.

To develop cancer therapies, Victor H. Engelhard, a professor of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is working toward understanding what cancer cell antigens are recognized naturally by T cells.

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