
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
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Our mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.
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Here's our latest, led by superstars Josephine Yates & Dr. Camille Mathey-Andrews, jointly with Valentina Boeva and many more Dana-Farber News Broad Institute We studied primary & lethal esophageal cancer using multi[RNA, ATAC, spatial]-omics, see Josephine's tweets below for more!đ

What if engineered T cells could defeat AMLâand persist long enough to prevent relapse? A new Nature Communications study led by PICI Investigator Philip Greenberg, MD & team at Fred Hutch Cancer Center found WT1-specific TCR-T cells showed activity but often lost functionâexcept when azacitidine

New #JITC review: Intentional heterogeneity in autologous cell-based gene therapies: strategic considerations for first-in-human trials bit.ly/4dTQf0V John Connolly


When the hardest cancers go unsolved, Anusha Kalbasi, MD (Stanford Medicine), gets to work. The PICI Investigator is a recipient of the 2025 CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Award from Cancer Research Instituteârecognizing investigators who take on cancerâs toughest questions. Dr. Kalbasiâs lab is reshaping


thank you, Cancer Research Institute -- we are fired up and ready to make some bold moves

âWhy stop now, when we havenât yet realized immunotherapyâs full potential?â In a new Nature Reviews Drug Discovery interview, Ira Mellman, PhD, President of Research at PICI, shares whatâs next in #CancerImmunotherapyâfrom curative cell therapies to smarter T cells. Read more:


The deadliest cancers donât just resist treatment, they vanish from the immune systemâs view. PICI Investigator Judith Agudo, PhD, Dana-Farber has made it her mission to expose them. This week, that mission was recognized with the 2025 CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Award, one of




Thrilled to celebrate Karen Knudsen, MBA PhD â our CEO â as a CNBC 2025 Changemaker! Her mission: get innovation to those who need it most. In under 10 years, PICI has backed 1,000+ investigators, 17 startups, and $4B+ in follow-on capital â all by de-risking science from day one.

Share your #cancer #immunology research w/ #CSCancerImmunity2025 organizers Ignacio Melero Universidad de Navarra, Ira Mellman Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Fabiola Rivas, Immunity & Montse Rojo de la Vega Cancer Cell. Abstract deadline July 25 hubs.li/Q03tjTxS0


Ira Mellman, the new president of research at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (Fatima Datunsolang), asks why so many drug developers are retreating from cancer immunotherapies before they have achieved their full potential in our latest interview nature.com/articles/d4157âŚ


KRAS mutations are among the most commonâand most challengingâtargets in solid tumors. A new Cell Press study led by PICI investigator Daniel Powell, PhD, and a Penn Medicine team including Beatriz Carreno, PhD, introduces NeoCARs: CAR T-cells targeting mutant KRAS (G12V) via



đđđ-đ đđ¨đ đ˘đ-đđđđ˘đ§đ : ArsenalBio CEO ken drazan describes the idea of logic-gating, which might allow CAR-T therapies to work in solid tumors when targeting more than one antigen is needed. Full interview: biotechtv.com/post/arsenalbiâŚ

T cells donât act alone. The immune systemâs response to cancer depends on multicellular âhubsâ â coordinated networks of immune and non-immune cells. Karin Pelka đŚ @pelkalab.bsky.social (Gladstone Institutes) has been awarded the 2025 AAAS Wachtel Award for uncovering these hubs, and revealing why some tumors


Can a common autoimmune drug help reverse one of the most serious side effects of cancer immunotherapy? A new PICI-supported UCLA Health study says maybe yes. Researchers found that JAK inhibitors â already FDA-approved â could prevent or even reverse checkpoint inhibitorâinduced

What if we could rewire tumors to help the immune system destroy them? A new PICI-supported study by UCSF School of Medicine and WashU Medicine with contributions from Julia Carnevale , MD, and Arun Wiita, MD, PhD, shows ATG9A-deficient tumors are vulnerable to macrophages. And with