Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, MBI researchers have found.| mbi.ufl.edu
In Ellie’s memory, the Kavalieros family partnered with Golf Fights Cancer to raise funds that benefit critical pediatric brain cancer research. The funds support the University of Florida Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program’s work to develop new ways to help the immune system fight brain tumors, including DIPG.| giving.ufhealth.org
Under new $2.6 million NIH grant MBI researchers will investigate why some patients respond to dendritic cell therapy and some do not.| McKnight Brain Institute » University of Florida
The breakthrough by UF Health Cancer Center researchers now will be tested in a Phase 1 pediatric clinical trial for brain cancer.| cancer.ufl.edu