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Dr. Karen Hastings, professor and first chair of Dermatology Department at the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix, is pioneering research on skin cancer vaccines. Her work focuses on harnessing the immune system’s ability to recognize and fight cancer through neoantigens. Hastings and her team developed a scoring model, NeoScore, to identify the most effective neoantigens for vaccine development. With Arizona’s high UV exposure fueling skin cancer cases, her research could lead to groundbreaking treatments that help the immune system overcome cancer’s defense mechanisms.
The story originally appeared on U of A Health Sciences' Website and was written by Blair Willis.
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