In this video David Braun, MD, PhD, describes the immune system's role in battling cancer. His lab researchers study how and why the immune system stops recognizing cancer cells and what can be done to fix that error.
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Tumor Microenvironments, Target Antigens & Immunotherapy
The Braun Lab
Cancer cells look very foreign to the body and so the immune system, if it’s doing its job, should be able to get rid of [them]. But we know that clinically when cancer forms in an individual, the immune system is not doing its job, that somehow that cancer is hiding from the immune system. And so our lab really seeks to understand how that process happens and how we can fix it.
David A. Braun, MD, PhDAssistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman Yale Scholar
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