Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roswell Park is America's first cancer centre (1898), with strengths in immunotherapy and cell therapy manufacturing.
GMP cell manufacturing, SurVaxM glioblastoma vaccine, photodynamic therapy origins (Dougherty).
- Cell therapy manufacturing
- Photodynamic therapy
Candace Johnson is a pharmacologist who has led America's oldest cancer centre since 2015.
Eunice Wang is an AML trialist who helped bring FLT3 and menin inhibitors to patients.
The Saturday Night Live star wrote about her ovarian cancer in It's Always Something and died at 42 in 1989. Her name lives on in Gilda's Club and the familial ovarian cancer registry at Roswell Park.
Led the first talimogene laherparepvec plus ipilimumab study and co-wrote the immune toxicity management guidelines.
Pawel Kalinski is an immunologist reprogramming tumour microenvironments so T cells can enter.
Built one of the first CD19 CAR-T programmes and invented 'armoured' CAR-T cells that secrete cytokines.
Robert Fenstermaker invented SurVaxM, a survivin-targeted vaccine in late-stage trials for glioblastoma.