Naoto Hirano

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Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

 

Full Biography

 

Cancers of Interest

Blood, Breast, Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Skin, Soft Tissue Sarcoma

 

Research Interests and Clinical Approach

Dr. Hirano’s research team is particularly interested in understanding how the interactions between T cells and antigen-presenting cells affect priming, expansion, persistence and differentiation of T cells, as well as how this leads to the subsequent generation and maintenance of anti-tumor T cell memory.

 

Projects at BioCanRx

New generation chimeric antigen receptors for improved adoptive T cell therapy for cancer

 

CREATING T-CELL RECEPTORS THAT REACT TO SPECIFIC TUMOUR ANTIGENS FOR IMPROVED ADOPTIVE T-CELL THERAPY