Welcome! In this issue you will read about more of the breakthroughs you help make possible: Dr. Jim Allison’s Nobel Prize-winning immunology research; advances in our Moon Shots Program™; and a former patient’s gift for cancer patients with autoimmune diseases. On behalf of our patients and everyone here working to #endcancer, thank you.
Peter WT Pisters, M.D. President
Lifesaving passion
Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison, Ph.D., says, “Ideas come from a passion to understand how things work.” Allison’s fascination with T cells has led to groundbreaking immune-based therapy that is saving lives. This kind of curiosity also fuels MD Anderson’s Moon Shots Program to find cures for many different cancers.
Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison, Ph.D., says, “Ideas come from a passion to understand how things work.” Allison’s fascination with T cells has led to groundbreaking immune-based therapy that is saving lives. This kind of curiosity also fuels MD Anderson’s Moon Shots Program to find cures for many different cancers.
Cancer survivor Bob Wilkes was disappointed to learn people facing both cancer and autoimmune diseases can’t have potentially lifesaving immunotherapy.