Personalised Cancer Vaccines

With the knowledge gained from the mRNA vaccines generated for use against Coronavirus, scientists are working on the development of personalized cancer vaccines. They know that every tumour is different and are progressing vaccines that are specific to each tumour and can be trained to recognize cancer cells so that they trigger an immune response.

Professor Klaus Pors

We are delighted to report that Klaus Pors has been promoted to Professor of Chemical Biology at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford. Professor Pors is leading the research team which includes Enrica, the PhD research student who has been funded for the past two years by Secondary1st, thanks to our…

A New Test

Scientists are working on a ground-breaking test to spot or predict a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer or three other gynaecological cancers (ovarian, cervical and uterine cancer) from one sample taken from a routine cervical smear test. Two papers published in the journal “Nature Communications” reported on two studies that found that this test,…