Dr. Shashi Gujar of Dal’s Department of Pathology. (File photo)

Repurposing COVID-19 immune response for cancer therapy

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COVID-19 has touched almost every country around the world since it emerged months ago. As of September 9, 2020, 27.6 million people have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and there have been 898,000 deaths. But, a Dal scientist is hoping that there is a silver lining to this catastrophic pandemic.

Dr. Shashi Gujar, a scientist with the Department of Pathology at Dal, together with partners in France, Demark, Germany, the United States and India, is examining whether the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 could be repurposed as the next generation of cancer immunotherapy…..

https://www.dal.ca/news/2020/09/14/repurposing-covid-19-immune-response-for-cancer-therapy.html

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