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Immunosuppressant drugs
Immunosuppressant drugs, or immunosuppressants, are medications that reduce the immune response. Many patients who have received bone marrow or organ transplants are prescribed immunosuppressants to reduce the risk of graft rejection. While on immunosuppressants, an individual may be unable to fight infection, making them susceptible to disease.
JUN 29, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: June 29, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) As of May 2022, there have been more than 500 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including numerous variants. Additiona...
AUG 26, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: August 26, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a fatal disease with rising incidence and a remarkable resistance to current therapies. In t...
JUN 02, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand how the outcome of PD-1 blockade is a summation of increased Teffector activity and increased Treg suppressive activity 2. Explain how PD-1 blockade leads...
MAY 05, 2021 | 10:30 AM
This talk will start with an introduction to a number of illicit benzodiazepines that have appeared in North East England over the last couple of years. This will be followed by an overview...
APR 07, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Cell encapsulation within semi-permeable devices represents a local immunoisolation strategy for cell-based therapies without the need for systemic immunosuppression. The encapsulation syste...
FEB 10, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Primates have been essential in unlocking novel immune mechanisms that have driven development of groundbreaking new drugs in infectious disease and transplantation, amongst others related t...
JUL 29, 2020 | 3:00 PM
With the recent successes of immunotherapies, a fresh breeze of optimism in the fight against cancer has reinvigorated the industry. Perhaps the greatest legacy will be the realization of th...
JUN 18, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 18, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Despite the success of immunotherapy against several malignancies including melanoma and lung adenocarcinoma, glioblastoma remains the excep...
MAY 05, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: May 5, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT As of May 4, 2020, 1,152,372 total COVID-19 cases and 67,456 total deaths have been reported in the United States (U.S.)...
MAY 30, 2019 | 1:30 PM
Tissues in the body are wonderfully organized, with specific arrangements of cells, extracellular matrix, secreted molecules, and fluid flow that synergize that create emergent functions. How...
MAY 21, 2019 | 7:00 AM
DATE: May 21, 2019TIMEL 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET Human T cells are central effectors of immunity and cancer immunotherapy. CRISPR-based functional studies in T cells could prioriti...
OCT 10, 2018 | 9:00 AM
In prior work, we have pursued how tumor reactive monoclonal antibody (mAb), together with activators of innate immune cells, like NK cells, can augment antibody dependent cell-mediated cytot...
