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2020-21 Health Sciences Seminar Series – Dr. David Stojdl
February 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
| Location: | This event will be held online via Zoom. Please contact healthsciences@carleton.ca for Zoom details. |
The Department of Health Sciences is pleased to announce the next seminar in our seminar series.
Presenter: Dr. David Stojdl, Senior Vice President Discovery R&D, Turnstone Biologics Inc.
Title: Oncolytic Virus Immunotherapy for Cancer
Immunotherapy has shown the greatest clinical promise to service the cancer patients that are not benefiting from the current standards of care (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy). As a result, the field has exploded in recent years in an effort to develop technologies that can fully capitalize on the potential of the immune system. One such avenue of study is the use of viruses as programmable nanomedicines to shape and direct both innate and acquired immunity towards the patient’s tumour. I will discuss our current work to bring these concepts to the clinic.