10 Dec 2019

Funding for research into tailor-made tumour treatment

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 10 December 2019

Dr Nicholas Fleming from the University of Otago has been awarded a $600,000 fellowship fund to investigate how an individualised approach to testing cancer patient's tumours could help patients receive the most effective treatment.

Dr Fleming explains his research and how he'll go about it.

T cell latching on to a yellow cancer cell to kill it

T cell latching on to a cancer cell to kill it Photo: Malaghan Institute

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