Personalized Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases

In autoimmune disease, your own immune system turns against you. But advances in immunology research reveal a promising new kind of treatment: targeting rogue immune cells with...other immune cells! In this episode, expert Clarice Pavlak and guests Johari Hunt and Andrew Holder discuss how this treatment, called CAR-T cells, works, the wide range of diseases it could treat, and the benefits and drawbacks of personalized medicine. Download the paper: Come see the In Plain English live show on June 12th! RSVP here: In Plain English now has a Discord server! Join ⁠⁠here ⁠⁠ to chat with other listeners, past experts, and guests about science, suggest new episode topics, and more! Remember to follow In Plain English on ⁠⁠Facebook ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ , and ⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠ to keep up with the latest announcements! If you are able, please consider ⁠⁠becoming a Patron⁠⁠ to help support In Plain English! And check out our ⁠⁠Where to Listen⁠⁠ page to

You can listen to Personalized Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Personalized Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases is an episode from In Plain English: Science Made Simple by In Plain English.

This episode is 01:17:41 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2024.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from In Plain English: Science Made Simple when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.