“When a tumor tries to turn T cells off, we want that signal to do the opposite—to wake them up," said Kay Chung.
Chung just won a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub #SyntheticBiology Award. Read more about her work rewiring T cell signaling in cancer:
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Researchers are developing programmable immune strategies that allow T cells to resist exhaustion and sustain anti‑tumor responses. Tumors survive in part by sending “don’t attack me” signals to T cel...