Wellness Lecture: Cell Based Immune Therapies for Cancer


Event Date:

Event Time:
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

We are excited to host Dr. Khalid Shah, MS, PH.D. at our Cedardale Andover location as he discusses The Wellness Connection to Cell Based Immune Therapies for Cancer.

Key points to be discussed:

  • Improving the function of the body's immune cells to attack cancer cells
  • Role of diet and exercise in changing the body's immune cell function
  • Using the patient's own cells to treat disease by gene editing them

Lecture is FREE.  Space is limited.  Please register at the Cedardale Andover Front Desk.

Dr. Khalid Shah, MS, PH.D.img
Director, Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Excellence in Biomedicine
Vice Chair of Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Dr. Shah and his team have pioneered major developments in the Cell therapy field, successfully engineering targeted stem cells and T cells and developing therapies for cancer.  Recently, Dr. Shah's laboratory has reverse engineered cancer cells using CRISPR/Cas9 technology and utilized them as therapeutics to treat cancer.  This work was published in journal Science Translational Medicine and highlighted world-wide including features on Scientific American, New York Times and Fox News.  To translate the exciting therapies developed in his Center into clinics, he has founded biotech company, AMASA Therapeutics Inc. whose main objective is the clinical translation of therapeutic cells in cancer patients.