A redesigned cancer immunotherapy is showing striking early results after decades of disappointment with similar drugs. Researchers engineered a more powerful CD40 agonist antibody and changed how ...
Future studies may look at targeting the CD40 pathway as a potential therapeutic target ORLANDO, DECEMBER 7, 2025 - Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have characterized ...
Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise-and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer ...
Cancer immunotherapy is a strategy that turns the patient’s own immune cells into a “search-and-destroy” force that attacks the tumor’s cells. The “search” immune cells are the dendritic cells, which ...
In a new study published in Science titled, “Mitochondrial metabolism and signaling direct dendritic cell function in antitumor immunity,” researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have ...