Investigator Spotlight
Dr. Zachary Morris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is a member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Teaching the Immune System to Fight Cancer
Vaccines against an infection work by training the immune system at the site of injection and then spreading those educated immune cells throughout the body.
UW Carbone Cancer Center researcher and Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (Big Ten CRC) Head and Neck Clinical Trial Working Group member Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, thinks that same immunotherapy concept can be applied to fighting cancer, especially metastatic cancers where cells from the initial tumor have spread to other parts of the body. Morris is also working with Big Ten CRC to launch a Sarcoma Clinical Trial Working Group.
This story is adapted from an earlier version, originally published by UW Health
Read the full article at: https://www.bigtencrc.org/member-feature-university-of-wisconsin-carbone-cancer-center-3/