Giving early-stage pancreatic cancer patients a CD40 immune-stimulating drug helped jumpstart a T cell attack to the notoriously stubborn tumor microenvironment before surgery and other treatments, ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have characterized the complex microenvironment in angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma (AITL), a type of nodal T cell lymphoma, and ...

Over the past 20 years, a class of anticancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies has shown great promise but also induced great disappointment. While such drugs have been effective at activating the ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Immune Technologies and Therapeutics, Inc. (BITT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel tumor necrosis factor superfamily receptor (TNFSR) antagonist ...

This study uses Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the causal roles of CD40 and CD40L in BC.Data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on BC (overall, ER-positive, and ER-negative ...

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Immune Technologies and Therapeutics, Inc. (BITT), a clinical stage developer of novel tumor necrosis factor superfamily receptor (TNFSR) antagonist antibodies, ...

This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component.

CD40 is a tumour necrosis factor receptor superfamily member expressed on antigen-presenting cells such as dendritic cells, macrophages and B cells. Engagement by agonistic antibodies or ligands ...

A plasma-based proteomic platform for predicting clinical benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors in multiple cancers. Use of a tissue-free epigenomic circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay for ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering ...