The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer opened calls for nominations for the Steven A. Rosenberg Scholars Award May 1. This award provides $150,000 in funding to advance the research of an early career scientist in the field of immunology and cancer immunotherapy.
Immunotherapy has changed the course of blood cancers and melanomas, but is stubbornly ineffective for the treatment of most epithelial solid cancers—the cancers that kill about 90% of the more than 600,000 Americans who die of cancer each year.
