Overcomin Challenges

摘要

Until recently, Olivera Finn would come across articles or meeting sessions describing her field as "Fact or Fiction." "It used to drive me crazy," she says. Finn, a chair of the Department of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh, and others who work on cancer vaccines have finally seen their field vindicated. Three vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and five U.S. phase III clinical trials are poised to report data by this year. Worldwide, over a dozen cancer vaccines have been approved.