{"id":8329,"date":"2017-11-01T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?p=8329"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:47:05","slug":"member-feature-university-of-wisconsin-carbone-cancer-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/member-feature-university-of-wisconsin-carbone-cancer-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Feature: University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Investigator Spotlight<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4305 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigtencrc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ZachMorris-300x204.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigtencrc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ZachMorris-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigtencrc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ZachMorris-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigtencrc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ZachMorris-1024x695.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/em>Dr. Zachary Morris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Oncology at the\u00a0University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is a member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching the Immune System to Fight Cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/uw-carbone-cancer-center\/47424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Carbone Cancer Center<\/a>\u00a0researcher\u00a0and Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (Big Ten CRC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtencrc.org\/clinical-research\/head-and-neck-clinical-trial-working-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Head and Neck Clinical Trial Working Group<\/a>\u00a0member\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/findadoctor\/profile\/zachary-s-morris-md\/10328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zachary Morris, MD, PhD<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is adapted from an earlier version,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/news\/the-immune-system-goes-to-school-to-learn-how-to-fight-cancer\/51234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>originally published by UW Health<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigator Spotlight Dr. Zachary Morris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Oncology at the\u00a0University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is a member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8330,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}