Mary Philip and Michael Rudloff (IMAGE)

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Mary Philip and Michael Rudloff

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Mary Philip, MD, PhD, left and Michael Rudloff, PhD, found that T cells become “exhausted” within hours of encountering a tumor, challenging existing ideas about how T cells become dysfunctional.

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