A San Antonio cancer researcher has won a grant worth more than three million dollars to work in the cutting edge field of immunotherapy.
Tyler Curiel, MD, of UT Health Cancer Center was awarded what’s called a “provocative questions” grant from the National Cancer Institute.
Curiel’s initial focus is on melanoma and ovarian cancer.
Local patients will help test drugs designed to recruit the body’s own immune system to target tumor cells and potentially kill the cancer.