Luis Voloch and Noam Solomon (Immunai)

Stan­ford, Park­er In­sti­tute sci­en­tists team up with two young en­gi­neers in $20M AI play with an im­munol­o­gy fo­cus

Al­most a year ago, a group of sci­en­tists at Stan­ford and the Park­er In­sti­tute for Can­cer Im­munother­a­py pub­lished a pa­per in Na­ture Med­i­cine that chal­lenged a com­mon as­sump­tion about where tu­mor fight­ing cells come from: While re­searchers had thought that the role of check­point block­ade was to rein­vig­o­rate T cells al­ready present in the tu­mor, they sug­gest­ed that the vast ma­jor­i­ty ac­tu­al­ly didn’t come from the tu­mor sites at all.

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