# OnCo record john-bell (person). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/people/john-bell/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "john-bell" ;
  schema:name "John C. Bell"@en ;
  schema:description "John Bell's laboratory showed that cancer cells which have broken their interferon alarm cannot defend themselves against a virus, the mechanism the whole field is built on."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/john-bell/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bell%20JC%5BAuthor%5D%20oncolytic>, <https://www.ohri.ca/profile/jbell> ;
  onco:tag "oncolytic-virus", "immunotherapy", "canada" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Senior Scientist, Cancer Research Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; University of Ottawa" ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/oncolytic-virus/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/ottawa-hospital/> ;
  onco:people <https://onco.cc/people/stephen-russell/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-stojdl-vsv-interferon-defect-natmed-2000/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-russell-peng-bell-oncolytic-virotherapy-natbiotech-2012/> ;
  schema:affiliation <https://onco.cc/institutions/ottawa-hospital/> .