Topics: Cancer

Jianzhu Chen’s work may one day lead to a cancer vaccine. Photo: Len Rubenstein
Spring 2011

Resisting Cancer

Jianzhu Chen is working to harness the immune system against tumors.

Prof. Richard Hynes provides insight into how cancer spreads. Photo: Richard Howard
Summer 2010

Binding Cells

Prof. Richard Hynes, an MIT biologist, provides insight into how cancer spreads.

Prof. Forest White hopes his work will lead to an effective new treatment for the most common type of adult brain tumor, glioblastoma - the kind that killed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Photo: Richard Howard
Spring 2010

Cancer Drugs

Prof. Forest White of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is working to develop novel drug treatments.

Tom Peterson stands before MIT's new cancer facility slated to open later this year. Photo: Richard Howard
Spring 2010

‘Exciting Opportunity’

Tom Peterson ’57 gives a major gift to MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, because he says that whatever MIT touches turns to gold.

Darrell Irvine hopes to imbue the body's natural defenses with superhero powers. Photo: Thomas Gearty
Fall 2009

New Materials

Prof. Darrell Irvine is using new materials to power up the immune system against disease.

K. Dane Wittrup is developing a class of cancer drugs inspired by the immune system's own disease-fighting antigens. Photo: Thomas Gearty
Summer 2009

Enemy Invaders

Molecular bioengineer K. Dane Wittrup is designing cancer-fighting drugs.

Jen and Chuck Johnson have a dream that MIT researchers will find cures for cancer. Photo: John Nienhuis
Summer 2009

‘Part of the Team’

Chuck and Jen Johnson have a dream that MIT researchers will soon find cures for cancer.