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‘Dream Team’ Principal


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Stand Up To Cancer is a groundbreaking initiative created to accelerate innovative cancer research that will rapidly bring new therapies to patients. In 2014, Margaret A. Tempro, MD, was selected to join a multidisciplinary Stand Up To Cancer “dream team” of pancreatic cancer researchers from nine institutions. Dr. Tempero will lead the University of California, San Francisco, portion of research, collaborating nationally to study vaccines and other immune-based strategies.

The project, titled “Transforming Pancreatic Cancer to a Treatable Disease,” is being funded by the Lustgarden Foundation and the Fox Family Cancer Research Funding Trust, along with administrative support and oversight from Stand Up To Cancer’s scientific partner, the American Association for Cancer Research. ■

 


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