Application Area: Diabetes

Technologies 1

• T cell traps
  T cells, a subtype of white blood cells, play key roles in cell-mediated immunity, be it to fight infections and cancer or, when corrupted, to react against the body’s own cells in more than 80 autoimmune diseases, including type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and others. However, isolating disease-related T cells from the body...

News 10

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• Press Release Renal reabsorption in living devices
  March 4, 2019
• Research Spotlights Delivering insulin in a pill
  June 25, 2018
• Video/​Animation Introducing ‘Immuno-Materials’ to immunotherapy
  June 28, 2017

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  Audio/Podcast
  Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine and Immuno-Materials
  Immunotherapy – treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to help fight disease – has groundbreaking and life-saving implications. In an effort to make immunotherapy more effective, Wyss Institute researchers are developing new immuno-materials, which help modulate immune cells to treat or diagnose disease. In this episode of Disruptive, Dave Mooney, Wyss Core Faculty...

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  Video/Animation
  Wyss Focus: Immuno-Materials
  Wyss Core Faculty, Dave Mooney, explains our new Immuno-Materials Focus Area, which adds a new dimension to immunotherapy in that it harnesses materials to make treatments more efficient and effective. These material-based systems are capable of modulating immune cells and releasing them into the body where they can treat diseases.

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  Audio/Podcast
  David and Mary Mooney: Seeing Is Believing-Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines
  Wyss Core Faculty member David Mooney presents a talk with Mary Mooney, titled Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines. Marshalling a patient’s immune system to recognize and destroy cancerous cells is an exciting strategy to attack cancer, and this talk will explore materials that engage the immune system through science and artistic representation. Mary K....