| During National Cancer Research Month, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center celebrates innovators like Dr. Allison — and people like you who help support their research. |
| Your gift now will help ensure pioneers like Dr. Allison can continue their vital research that will prevent the loss of more lives to cancer. |
| Dr. Allison, a cancer survivor, has a personal vendetta with the disease. He lost his mother to lymphoma when he was just 11 years old and later a brother to prostate cancer. |
| Itching to discover something new, Dr. Allison began his career in 1977 at MD Anderson's Science Park in Smithville, Texas. Years of research on the immune system and unrelenting persistence led him to develop an immune checkpoint blockade — an entirely new way of treating cancer that's yielding unprecedented results. |
| Dr. Allison's research into the biology of T cells, white blood cells that serve as the immune system's customized guided weapons, led him to develop the antibody ipilimumab, which blocks an "off switch" on those cells, unleashing an immune response against cancer. |
| Dr. Allison is now the chair of Immunology, where he is transforming the course of cancer research. |
| He's just one of the cancer‑fighting researchers, clinicians and staff who are bringing us closer to our goal of Making Cancer History®. |
| But they need your support. Give now to help fund the research, patient care and prevention programs that will save lives. |
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| Thank you for standing with us. |
