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High profile publication by Dr. Andrew Wang in Advanced Materials<\/p>\n

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\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Congratulations to radiation oncology physician-scientist Dr. Andrew Wang for his high profile publication in the journal Advanced<\/em> Materials<\/em>. In his study, Dr. Wang and colleagues developed a promising new nanotechnology-based delivery system for a mixture of two different immunotherapy drugs, one that directly stimulates the immune system and a second that works indirectly by \u201creactivating\u201d immune cells that had been turned off by the tumor.<\/p>\n

In mice with breast and melanoma skin cancer, the use of the two drugs together was better able to trigger the body\u2019s defenses to attack the tumor that the use of either drug alone. Adding radiation therapy further improved the combination\u2019s effectiveness.<\/p>\n

The mixing of the two immunotherapy drugs together wouldn\u2019t have been possible without the use of tiny nanoparticles to encapsulate the drugs and deliver them to the immune cells.<\/p>\n

You can read more about this research HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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