Rejuvenating dysfunctional T cells in ovarian cancer: CD28 is the license to kill

Florian Uhlitz & Dmitriy Zamarin · 2021-11-04

High-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs) exhibit limited response to immune checkpoint blockade. In a new study in Cancer Cell, Duraiswamy et al. highlight intratumoral CD28 co-stimulation by myeloid-antigen-presenting cells as a key mechanism required for activation of programmed cell death receptor 1 (PD-1)
Authors
Florian Uhlitz, Dmitriy Zamarin
Funding
PathologyPathology

NCI NIH HHS

P30 CA008748

National Cancer Institute

P30-CA008748