Finding the sweet spot: A tricky job for the right virus to treat brain cancer

Defeating brain cancer requires a delicate balance. At least that’s how Dr. David Stojdl sees it.   On the one hand, Dr. Stojdl is engineering viruses that seek out tumour cells in the brain, infect them and flag them as dangerous — yet don’t infect healthy cells.   “Brain tissue is not very amenable to […]

Cancer patients treated in world-first clinical trial of Canadian viral therapy

Clinical Trials, Media release   Canadian researchers have launched the world’s first clinical trial of a novel investigational therapy that uses a combination of two viruses to attack and kill cancer cells, and stimulate an anti-cancer immune response. Previous research by this team and others worldwide suggests that this approach could be very powerful, and […]