DCVax: The Cancer Vaccine Is More Than Its Payload

A national vaccine effort needs a cellular strategy and a delivery network. DCVax brings both into focus. The scientist who helped explain how an immune response begins did not live to hear that he

A national vaccine effort needs a cellular strategy and a delivery network. DCVax brings both into focus. The scientist who helped explain how an immune response begins did not live to hear that he had won the Nobel Prize. Ralph Steinman died three days before the October 2011 announcement. Decades earlier, in a 1973 paper with Zanvil Cohn, he had described an unusual branching cell. Years of subsequent work established the dendritic cell's exceptional ability to activate and direct T cells. A c