Ashish Shah, MD (IMAGE)

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Ashish Shah, MD — Caption

“We’re using evolution to attack tumors,” said study senior author, Ashish H. Shah, M.D. Viral mimicry was first successfully used to make ovarian cancer more susceptible to ICI in 2015. It has since been used in at least four other cancers, and it’s a rapidly developing area of research. But it had not previously been successfully applied to brain tumors.

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