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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

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He is being recognised for his revolutionary contributions to developing the first gene-edited cell-based therapy for cancer that involves the genetic re-engineering of a patient’s own T cells to combat their disease, and for demonstrating that adoptive T-cell therapy can induce remission and in some cases cure patients with advanced cancer.

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

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In addition, Dr. Bahassi stressed that the simple enumeration of CTCs will not contribute significantly to the development of improved or more personalized cancer treatments. During the webinar, Dr. Bahassi gave a brief schematic of how personalized, targeted assays can be developed to detect somatic mutations from cfDNA ( Figure 1 ).