Carl H. June, MD, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is among the researchers recognized by the Clinical Research Forum for the year’s 10 most outstanding research papers written by teams from across the nation. Each year the Clinical Research Forum conducts a national competition to determine the ten outstanding clinical research accomplishments in the United States. Dr. June is being acknowledged for his myeloma research progress, which included papers from 2015 on two different T cell therapies published in the New England Journal of Medicine ("Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells against CD19 for Multiple Myeloma") and Nature Medicine ("NY-ESO-1–specific TCR–engineered T cells mediate sustained antigen-specific antitumor effects in myeloma").
Read the Department of Communications news announcement.