Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have found that a subset of mutations within the overall tumor mutation burden, termed “persistent mutations,” are less likely to be edited out as cancer evolves, rendering tumors continuously visible to the immune system and predisposing them to respond to immunotherapy.
Stephen BaylinAndrew FeinbergJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers Stephen Baylin and Andrew Feinberg were awarded the 2022–2023 Harvey Prize in the field of Science and Technology by the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
