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Dr. Carl H. June
cancer immunotherapy pioneer, CAR T-cell researcher, doctor, researcher | Philadelphia | PA | USA
Roles / Typescancer immunotherapy pioneer, CAR T-cell researcher, doctor, researcher
Websitehttps://www.pennmedicine.org/news/carl-june-to-receive-2024-breakthrough-prize-in-life-sciences
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Carl H. June, MD, is a Penn Medicine immunotherapy researcher and director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center. Penn Medicine describes him as a pioneer in the development of CAR T-cell therapy, a personalized cancer-treatment approach that engineers a patient's own immune cells to recognize and attack cancer.