Immunotherapy Articles

CTLA-4 and PD-1 based immunotherapies have demonstrated significant clinical efficacy in melanoma patients, but many patients remain non-responsive and relapse is common. To try and improve the response rate, researchers are currently working to develop innovative...

What are Immune Checkpoints? Immune checkpoints are regulators of the immune system which prevent the immune system from attacking self-antigens indiscriminately. While this is critical to preventing auto-immune disease it also causes the immune system to be...

The combination of anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 antibody-mediated immunotherapy is remarkably effective against melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, and non-small-cell lung cancer. However, this comes at the cost of frequent, serious immune-related adverse events. Colitis is...

Immune SystemThe immune system is the collection of cells, tissues and molecules that protects the body from pathogens and toxins in our environment, as well as against cancerous cells within our body. It is divided into two general types of immune reactions, innate...