CAR T-Cell Pioneer Takes Aim at Where No Campus Has Gone Before

CAR T-Cell Pioneer Takes Aim at Where No Campus Has Gone Before

Author: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus May 6, 2023 Duration: 28:00
In this episode of the CU Anschutz 360 podcast, Terry Fry, MD, the inaugural executive director and Charles C. Gates Endowed Chair of the Gates Institute, explains how the institute is heading toward new frontiers of targeted cell and gene therapies for cancers and other rare diseases. Fry talks about the latest advances in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR T) cell therapies, which he helped pioneer at the National Institutes of Health. He talks about how the Gates Institute, which connects and ...

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