Salk Institute scientists discovered a relationship between killer T-cell exhaustion and the body’s sympathetic stress response, or “fight-or-flight,” in varying cancer types in mouse and human tissue samples.
Physician-scientists by day, a funk-loving musical troupe by night. You may have seen The CheckPoints—a 13 member cover band with a three-piece brass section and Jim Allison on harmonica—movin’, groovin’, and gettin’ down as a mainstay closing act at ASCO, AACR, or the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer annual meetings.
