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Mohammed AlQuraishi, PhD

(Columbia University)

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Biology and a member of Columbia’s Program for Mathematical Genomics, where he works at the intersection of machine learning, biophysics, and systems biology. Prior to starting his academic career, Dr. AlQuraishi spent three years founding two startups in the mobile computing space.

Avery Posey Jr., PhD

(University of Pennsylvania)

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, a member researcher of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and a Research Health Scientist at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center. The Posey Laboratory generates novel CAR T cell therapies targeting tumor-associated glycosylation and investigates strategies to enhance CAR T cell persistence and overcome tumorinduced immunosuppression.

Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS

(Wellcome Sanger Institute)

is a systems and genome biologist who heads the Cellular Genetics programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. Dr. Teichmann’s research group develops and applies cell atlasing technologies to map human tissue architecture in order to understand health and disease. In 2016, she co-founded the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which she continues to co-lead. Dr. Teichmann is also the Director of Research at the Physics Department at the University of Cambridge.

Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research

This phase II/III compares the standard therapy (chemotherapy plus cetuximab) versus adding bevacizumab to standard chemotherapy, versus combination of just bevacizumab and atezolizumab in treating patients with head and neck cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic or advanced stage) or has come back after prior treatment (recurrent). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as atezolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Bevacizumab is in a class of medications called antiangiogenic agents. It works by stopping the formation of blood vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to tumor. This may slow the growth and spread of tumor. Cetuximab is in a class of medications called monoclonal antibodies. It binds to a protein called EGFR, which is found on some types of cancer cells. This may help keep cancer cells from growing. Cisplatin and carboplatin are in a class of chemotherapy medications known as platinum-containing compounds. They work by killing, stopping, or slowing the growth of cancer cells. Docetaxel is in a class of chemotherapy medications called taxanes. It stops cancer cells from growing and dividing and may kill them. The addition of bevacizumab to standard chemotherapy or combination therapy with bevacizumab and atezolizumab may be better than standard chemotherapy plus cetuximab in treating patients with recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancers.

Kevin Schey, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Biochemistry, Ophthalmology

Kevin Schey, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Biochemistry, Ophthalmology

k.schey@vanderbilt.edu

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Daniel Gochberg, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Physics and Astronomy

Daniel Gochberg, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Physics and Astronomy

daniel.gochberg@vumc.org

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Jessica Ancker, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Email

jessica.s.ancker@vumc.org
2525 West End Ave.

Jessica Ancker, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Professor of Biomedical Informatics

jessica.s.ancker@vumc.org

2525 West End Ave.

Research Program

Research Description

Have any questions? Contact Us 1-877-936-8422 for more information
Phase 1 study comprised of open-label, dose escalation, multiple cohorts of P-BCMA-ALLO1 allogeneic T stem cell memory (Tscm) CAR-T cells in subjects with relapsed / refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM).

‘Multi-omics’ reveals treatment option for breast cancer subtype

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In a multidisciplinary collaboration, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have identified a subtype of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) that appears to be able to escape detection by the immune system and evade immunotherapy.
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