Synthetic Dendritic Cells for Expanding Antigen-Specific T Cells used in Cancer Immunotherapy
— Technology Description:
A team led by Drs. Amit Pathak and Eynav Klechevsky have developed a soft alginate-gelatin matrix-based synthetic dendritic cell to rapidly expand and deliver CD8+ T cells for cancer immunotherapy. CD8+ T cells kill tumors, but current methods to expand them also activate r…