Andrew Sharabi MD PhD, Assistant Professor and member of the Basic Science Program in the Center for Precision Radiation Medicine (CPRM) has received a Cancer Moonshot U01 Grant as a co-investigator in collaboration with Silvio Gutkind PhD, Ezra Cohen MD, Steven Schoenberger PhD, Anjana Rao PhD, and Sonia Sharma PhD. The $4.3M NIH grant entitled
Stimulating Neo-Antigen Specific T Cell Responses in Head and Neck Cancers will study Neoantigens as a unique and powerful opportunity for directing a patient’s immune response specifically to cancer cells while avoiding damage to normal tissues.