Grant: Project Grant

Immunotherapy is like a superhero treatment for cancer, and it won a big award in 2018. We want to find a special medicine that can make it even better. One big problem with cancer is that it can hide from our body's defenses. Specifically, our body has special cells called "T cells" that can fight cancer, but they can get tired and stop working because of cancer. We can use medicines to wake them up and fight cancer again, but these medicines can be expensive and have side effects. Our team found a potential medicine called "compound A" that can wake up these special cells really well, but it has some problems. It doesn't dissolve very well in our body, and we don't know exactly how it works. So, we made a better version called "compound B," and we want to figure out how it works. If we understand it, we can make it even better and help more people with cancer. Our early results show that this could be a big breakthrough in cancer treatment.