Cell Therapy: The New Frontier in the Fight Against Cancer - SOLD OUT

For decades, cancer treatment relied on a blunt strategy: chemotherapy designed to kill rapidly dividing cells. While often effective, these drugs act like a cannon - targeting cancer but also damaging healthy tissue along the way.

Today, a new era of cancer therapy is emerging. Instead of broadly attacking tumors, scientists are learning how to harness the body’s own immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells with remarkable precision.

In this lecture, Roberto Sessa, PhD in Cancer Biology, explores the shift from traditional chemotherapy to modern immunotherapies and engineered cell-based treatments. Drawing on his research in cancer biology and immune-based therapies, he explains how scientists are moving beyond simply “poisoning” tumors and toward programming the immune system itself to identify and destroy cancer - opening the door to a new generation of highly targeted cancer treatments.