Fall Research Initiatives Webinar | Biomaterials-Based Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines

Immunotherapy has achieved significant clinical progress for cancer treatment over the past decade, but challenges including low patient responses, off-target side effects, and poor efficacy against solid tumors remain. One of our research interests is to understand how immune cells (e.g., dendritic cells (DCs)) can be manipulated or engineered using chemistry, material, and chemical biology approaches, in order to develop effective therapies for cancers that remain difficult to treat. In this talk, Professor Wang will present recent efforts in the development of robust biomaterial-based cancer vaccines. In particular, Professor Wang will highlight the tumor extracellular vesicle vaccine and scaffold vaccine.

Prof. Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Illinois. He is also affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry, Carle College of Medicine, Beckman Institute, Materials Research Laboratory, and Institute for Genomic Biology.