Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, Principal Investigator, and Co-Principal Investigators, Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Jamey Weichert, PhD, Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, and Bryan Bednarz, PhD, for receiving a UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative grant for their proposal entitled, “Combining Radiotherapeutic with Antitumor Antibody and IL2 to Create a Potent In Situ Cancer Vaccine.” This two-year project, in the amount of $382,015, is jointly funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and the UW Carbone Cancer Center. This project will unite two separate approaches of antibody-based immunotherapy and novel radiation therapy with the goal of killing tumors in a way that results in the cancer cells acting as a vaccine that creates immunity to the cancer that created the tumor, thereby protecting the body from any spread or recurrence of that cancer. The aim is to produce the preclinical data needed to support steps to initiate human clinical trials of the combined treatments. Click here to see more about this award.