Title: Manipulating the Immune System to Treat Disease

Speaker: Prof Edgar Engleman, MD, Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Medical Director, Stanford Blood Center

Date: 10/09/2018

Brief Description:
The immune system is a powerful multicellular system that defends the body against many types of infection, but when misdirected or withheld, it can promote diseases, including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Although new therapies are not without risk or toxicity, they can provide dramatic benefits, even for those with advanced cancers. In addition to cancer immunotherapies, new types of immunotherapy are being developed to treat neurodegenerative diseases. In the future, combined treatment with immunotherapy and other agents will likely control and possibly cure many diseases that have heretofore been considered untreatable.

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