Irv Weissman, Stanford

PD-L1, CD47 and now CD24? Star Stan­ford I/O sci­en­tist Irv Weiss­man points to a ‘ma­jor’ new can­cer tar­get

Famed Stan­ford drug re­searcher Irv Weiss­man, who helped set off a scram­ble to de­vel­op new drugs that can si­lence the “don’t eat me” sig­nal sent by CD47, says he and a team of in­ves­ti­ga­tors in his lab have found a com­ple­men­tary tar­get on the menu that promis­es to work where the pi­o­neer­ing drugs fall far short of the mark.

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