Farah Hasan对她的领域的承诺感到兴奋免疫学乐动体育LDsports中国德克萨斯州长安德森癌症中心大学研究。
“免疫疗法令人兴奋的是,与传统药物不同,免疫系统可以改变,类似于病毒,细菌和癌症可以改变的方式,以避免被治疗杀死,因此免疫疗法更接近火灾,“她说。
高中的生物课先修课程首先引起了哈桑对科学的兴趣。她继续攻读生物学本科学位,并计划去医学院。然后她的计划改变了。
“我意识到,与诊断和治疗疾病相比,我对学习和理解疾病更感兴趣,”哈桑说,他现在是哈佛大学免疫学博士学位项目的四年级学生MD Anderson uthealth生物医学科学研究生院。
“我在大学举行了介绍性免疫学院,我参加了一个疫苗的课程,让我思考免疫学的实际应用,”她述评。“你了解它的越多,你就越意识到免疫系统是多么复杂。学习免疫系统和它与病原体之间的相互作用以及癌症,使科学家能够制定利用免疫系统治疗疾病的策略。“
大学毕业后,哈桑在一家疫苗和细胞治疗实验室工作,从事癌症和艾滋病免疫疗法的临床试验。她来到MD安德森进一步发展她的专业知识。
“让我震惊了MD安德森的一件事是对新想法的创新和开放的合作氛围和兴趣,”她说。“我在这里被提起了研究生课程,因为教师对学生的发展是易接近而真正的兴趣。”
会面后圆环扬,M.D.,教授黑色素瘤肿瘤内科和免疫学现在,她的研究顾问和他实乐动体育LDsports中国验室的其他人立即舒服,并认为他们会很好地工作。
“他有一个良好的幽默感,但也希望他的学员成为最好的。我感谢他像训练的同事一样对待我 - 他认真对待我的想法,让我的自主权和资源在仍然帮助我发展和改进它们时追求他们。随着时间的推移,这种支持帮助建立了我作为独立科学家和思想家的信心,“她说。
该实验室专注于T细胞,一种在免疫系统中发挥关键作用的白细胞。这些细胞可用于使称为饲养细胞疗法(ACT)的治疗,其涉及将患者注入的癌症特异性T细胞的分离和生长。这些T细胞可以转到肿瘤部位,杀死癌细胞并潜在提供持久的保护性反应。
哈桑说:“这种防止复发的保护依赖于‘记忆’T细胞的产生,即使在癌症被消除后,这种T细胞也会长期留在体内。”“如果这些记忆细胞被成功地创造出来,从理论上讲,病人就不必接受持续的治疗。我的研乐动体育LDsports中国究重点是制造一种特殊的记忆T细胞,它驻留在组织中,充当前线的防御者。”
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