Name: Ease my Disease
Start: 2024-05-14T19:00:00
End: 2024-05-14T20:30:00
Location: Notting Hill Hotel

Hear about some amazing ways that disease prevention and treatment is progressing through local research.

Investigating T cells in breast cancer

Bec Brown (ONJCRI/La Trobe University)

How would the treatment of breast cancer change if we could employ rare immune cells, with a "particular" set of skills, to patrol the body and keep cancer cells from spreading? γδ T cells could be this cell type in cancer patients, but how these cells act in breast cancer isn’t known… yet.

Lessons from the immune system for malaria vaccines

Tim Ho (Burnet Institute)

So we’ve been trying to make effective malaria vaccines for decades now. We’ve finally got two (yay), but their protection doesn’t last (nay). Come and learn how our immune response to malaria infections could guide the development of more potent vaccines.

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