Jim Allison: Immunity

By discovering a way to stop suppression of the immune system's naturally occurring cancer-killing T cells, James P. Allison's research led to a way to cure several types of cancer without radiation or chemotherapy.
Jim Allison received the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science. Learn more about his life-saving research: bit.ly/2uNbj4F
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[@rayklein1125]

My hero also. I was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in September 2018. My doctor told me I had 7 months to live. They put me on Dr Jim Allison's life saving discovery and here I am 17 months later and cancer free. I hope to be able to meet him in the near future and give him my personal thanks.

[@CLH-hc8ce]

This is so wonderful it brings me to tears, this man has become my new hero. I have believed that chemo and radiation were the wrong answers for a long time. this gives me hope that accepted medicine may finally go the right direction instead of torturing people with horrible chemo and radiation. This man is truly a great person. Thank you Mr. Allison for being so strong and not giving up, for fighting the mainstream.

[@victoriamhansen3363]

GOD GAVE US MEN LIKE DR. ALLISON WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP! HE IS A HERO AMONGST HEROES...AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS! MY CHILDREN'S ALUMNI!

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James Allison: CTLA-4 the brake for T cell, 2018 Nobel Prize for tumor immunology