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What looking beyond the tumor microenvironment has taught us about immunotherapy

Jolien Sweere 4/6/2023
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About the Webinar

Immunotherapies work solely by activating immune cells within the tumor – or do they? In this webinar, Dr. Jolien Sweere walks us through a number of scientific studies published within the last 6 years showing that immune responses outside the tumor are necessary for effective immunotherapy. She also highlights more recent work, including work done by Teiko Bio, that found peripheral immune features associated with improved clinical outcomes and presentation of immune related adverse events.

About the Speaker

Jolien Sweere, PhD completed her doctoral training in Immunology at Stanford University in the laboratory of Paul Bollyky. During her PhD, she found that a type of temperate filamentous bacteriophage that infects Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with chronic human wound infections. Her work was published in Science in 2019.

After completing her PhD, Jolien worked as a Life Sciences commercial strategy consultant at Charles River Associates in San Francisco. She joined Teiko Bio in 2022 as a Senior Scientist, Medical Strategy.

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Illustration. In the center is a grey mass labeled "tumor" under a magnifying glass. Inside the tumor are three grey cells all with "zzz" above them. Outside the magnifying glass (and therefore outside the tumor) in the four corners are different depictions. Top left shows three red cells and is labeled "novel T cell clones". Top right shows a lymph node with red T cell zones and the words "LN trafficking required". Bottom right shows two red T cells in a blood vessel labeled "LAG-3 and CD8+" with the words "peripheral biomarkers". Bottom left shows a spleen with the same grey, sleeping T cells. There's a red lightning bolt and the words "impaired systemic immune response in cancer".

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