Karin Straathof💙🎗
@straathof_karin
Clinician Scientist in Paediatric Oncology | Principal Investigator @uclcancer @CancerGrand NexTGen #immunotherapy #childhoodcancer
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20-12-2016 23:20:29
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As the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, draws to a close, we at OncoDaily have curated a list of 100 influential Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologists on Twitter (X) that are shaping the field of pediatric oncology! Follow them on X ! SIOP International ASCO oncodaily.com/positive/12569…
We are pleased to share our work revealing the efficacy of TIM-3 blockade as a therapeutic approach to diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (#DIPG) published today in Cancer Cell! A thread below by our talented first author Iker Ausejo (1/14). Link here! lc.cx/YbGkkd
In a new Nature Communications paper, we present two new tools to aid the targeting of #cancer associated #antigens: 1) HLA3DB: a curated database of peptide/#HLA structures and 2) RepPred, a #pHLA structure prediction method that outperforms existing approaches nature.com/articles/s4146…
Deciding which patients can receive #CAR T therapy is an important clinical question. By uncovering the structural basis of #MHC antigen recognition by a #neuroblastoma-targeting CAR we double the patient cohort and limit off-target toxicity Science Immunology science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
We heard 5 wonderful talks from City of London Centre students in paediatric cancer Sophie James Paolo Gallipoli lab, Amelia Claxton Maya Thanou lab, Dorothy Yang Arnold Lab, Sumayyah Imran Sara Ghorashian lab, and Gonzalo Mercado Karin Straathof💙🎗 lab. colcc.ac.uk/training-progr…
🚨Job alert: opportunity to join our team at UCL Cancer Institute to work on developing and testing #CART cells for #rhabdomyosarcoma funded by Alice's Arc #childhoodcancer Apply here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
New consultant post available in the CAR-T clinic at UCLH working with me, Claire Roddie Maeve O'Reilly . gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
Today we’re at The Francis Crick Institute hearing how the NexTGen Cancer Grand Challenges Challenges team is reinventing the treatment of solid tumors in children. We’re proud to support their work in partnership with Cancer Research UK and National Cancer Institute.
We also had a few award winners! Congratulations to: 🔸Matt Jones (best talk, team eDyNAmiC) 🔸Mariya Mardamshina M.D./Ph.D. (best poster, team PROMINENT) 🔸Pooja Vikraman (best poster, team SPECIFICANCER) Learn more about the Future Leaders programme: cancergrandchallenges.org/about/our-comm…
Very honoured to receive the ASH-BSH abstract achievement award The result of the tremendous work by so many talented people who I had the privilege to work with Zoe Wong, Isaac Gannon, Beth Psaila , Claire Roddie , Martin Pule and many more #ASH24
Today is #InternationalChildhoodCancerDay 🎗️ Recently, #CancerGrandChallenges team NexTGen (tackling our solid tumours in children challenge) uncovered a novel mechanism of antigen selection, which could pave the way for advances in cancer immunotherapy: cancergrandchallenges.org/news/unravelli…
This #InternationalChildhoodCancerDay we're celebrating findings from Cancer Grand Challenges Challenges team NexTGen 🙌 They've made an exciting discovery about our immune system, which could lead to more advanced #Immunotherapies and cancer vaccines 💉 Click below to read more 👇
