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Omid Veiseh (right) and Amir Jazaeri in Veiseh’s Rice University laboratory in August 2023. Veiseh is principal investigator on the “targeted hybrid oncotherapeutic regulation” (THOR) project, a $45 million program that the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is funding to fast-track the development of a small implant that can continuously monitor a patient’s cancer and adjust their immunotherapy dose in real time. Veiseh is an associate professor of bioengineering at Rice and a CPRIT Scholar with the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Jazaeri, a THOR co-principal investigator, is a professor of gynecologic oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, vice chair for clinical research in MD Anderson’s Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine and director of MD Anderson’s Gynecologic Cancer Immunotherapy Program.

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