| Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Jenny Gumperz Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology |
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Research area Understanding the biology of human innate T lymphocytes, so as to develop cellular immunotherapies using these unique immune cells.
What excites you about your work?
“Our work relates to using immune cells to fight cancer. We are developing a very different approach to do this–it involves activating the T lymphocytes of cancer patients in a very specific way to fight cancer. One of the things that is exciting about our approach is that it works by a different mechanism than current immunotherapies, and it may be particularly helpful for preventing cancers from growing back after they have initially gone into remission (this type of cancer remission is one of the major causes of mortality).”
What do you hope to achieve?
“Because our method works by a different mechanism, we hope that our approach will be able to be combined with existing therapeutic strategies to provide long-term remission for cancer patients.”
Jenny’s work with T lymphocytes, combined with existing immunotherapies, will propel research in long-term cancer remission; we are thrilled to continue working with the Gumperz Lab.
– Andy DeTienne, WARF, Director of Licensing
Want to learn more?
Andy DeTienne, [email protected], 608.960.9857