A Ray of Sunshine Never Dies
Congratulations to Professor Richard Vile for his recent appointment as the Joan Reece Chair in Immuno-oncology!
The Joan Reece Immuno-oncology Research Programme will focus on advancing ground-breaking work in harnessing the body’s own defences to better understand and treast cancer. This appointment will accelerate the pioneering work done at King’s throughout the years, paving the way for more effective treatments aiming to provide better and gentler care to our cancer patients.
Professor Vile delivered an inspiring inaugural lecture titled ‘A Ray of Sunshine Never Dies’ in memory of Joan Reece, in which he shared his commitment to accelerating the development of experimental cancer therapies such as Oncolytic Viruses that stimulate anti-tumour immune responses as well as fine tune already existing therapies such as CAR-T cell therapy. This work will be made possible here at King’s through the close collaboration between experts in Onco-immunology such as Professor Irshad and Dr Maher.
Our warmest thank you to the Reece family for their continuous support and for allowing us to advance science day after day.
