{"id":236887,"date":"2017-08-22T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/alliance-for-cancer-gene-therapy-acgt-foundation-2.php"},"modified":"2017-08-22T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:48:48","slug":"alliance-for-cancer-gene-therapy-acgt-foundation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gene-therapy\/alliance-for-cancer-gene-therapy-acgt-foundation-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT) Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Spotlight News Spot              <\/p>\n<p>        Video:ACGT fellow, Dr. Samuel Katz,Yale        Medical Center, speak about cell and gene therapies for        cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>        See all ACGT        videos here      <\/p>\n<p>          July 12, 2017        <\/p>\n<p>          STAMFORD, Conn., July 12, 2017  Today the FDAs          Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee, an independent panel          of experts, voted unanimously to recommend to the FDA                     Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          June 26, 2017        <\/p>\n<p>          On Saturday, June 24, 2017, more than 300 swimmers made          waves in the fight to defeat cancer at the 11th annual          Swim Across America Greenwich-Stamford            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          May 25, 2017        <\/p>\n<p>          Dear Friends: I have always considered myself to be a          very lucky person, but I wasnt feeling very lucky the          day I was told I            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          June 22, 2017        <\/p>\n<p>          I have always considered myself to be a very lucky          person, but I wasnt feeling very lucky the day I was          told I had chronic            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          June 3, 2016        <\/p>\n<p>          In 2012, Bob Levis, an Allentown, Pennsylvania resident,          believed he had come to the end of his life. Diagnosed in          2002 with chronic lymphocytic leukemia,            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          March 16, 2014        <\/p>\n<p>          They took my cancer cells and irradiated them, and then          injected them back into my body so my immune system would          kick in, Morrow said.           Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          June 21, 2017        <\/p>\n<p>          Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy fellow, Dr. Samuel Katz          at Yale Medical Center, speaks about cell and gene          therapies for cancer treatment. There has been            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          October 5, 2016        <\/p>\n<p>          Dr. Stephen Eck, Member of Alliance for Cancer Gene          Therapys Scientific Advisory Council, talks about the          importance of personalized therapies for cancer.          Historically, weve tried            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          October 5, 2016        <\/p>\n<p>          Dr. Michael Lotze, Member of Alliance for Cancer Gene          Therapys Scientific Advisory Council speaks about          progress in the fight against cancerhe has          witnessed during his            Read More        <\/p>\n<p>          The mission of ACGT is to seek out and support          revolutionary scientific research into the causes,          treatment and prevention of all types of cancer using          cells and genes as medicine.        <\/p>\n<p>          Cell and gene therapies are destroying tumors every day          in the laboratory and in human trials, targeting only the          cancer with few side effects to healthy tissue.          ACGTs rigorous grant review process, under the guidance          of a preeminent Scientific Advisory Council, have          resulted in some of the most successful breakthroughs in          the history of cancer treatments and led to many patients          in complete remission.        <\/p>\n<p>          100% of our funding supports innovation and translational          science that is proving again and again to offer better          treatment options than the traditional therapies of          chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. Every donation          brings us closer to saving lives and changing the way we          treat cancer forever.        <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        Video:ACGT fellow, Dr. Samuel Katz,Yale        Medical Center, speak about cell and gene therapies for        cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>        See all ACGT        videos here      <\/p>\n<p>      At the ACGT anniversary gala in April, Robert Vonderheide,      MD, DPhil, the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research and      newly appointed Director of the Abramson        Read More    <\/p>\n<p>      This fourth in our blog series on the progress of cell and      gene therapy for cancer focuses on a treatment that has made      huge strides        Read More    <\/p>\n<p>      In our last blog, we described the progress and promise of      CAR-T, an immunotherapy that has been particularly successful      with leukemia and lymphoma. As a        Read More    <\/p>\n<p>  2017 All rights reserved by ACGT. ACGT is a 501(c)(3)  organization and all contributions are tax-deductible under the  law of your state.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acgtfoundation.org\/\" title=\"Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT) Foundation\">Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT) Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Spotlight News Spot Video:ACGT fellow, Dr. Samuel Katz,Yale Medical Center, speak about cell and gene therapies for cancer treatment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gene-therapy\/alliance-for-cancer-gene-therapy-acgt-foundation-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gene-therapy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}