{"id":296040,"date":"2026-02-13T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296040\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:17:18","slug":"time100-health-catherine-wu-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296040\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Catherine Wu | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">For decades, scientists have sought to create vaccines that treat cancer. Researchers like Dr. Catherine Wu, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, are moving the field closer to attaining this goal. Wu and her colleagues have developed some of the first personalized cancer vaccines, which train a person\u2019s immune system to recognize and attack specific mutations, known as neoantigens, that are unique to their own tumors. Her lab designed an algorithm that uses genetic sequencing to identify the neoantigens in individual tumors that would elicit a strong immune response, then crafted vaccines targeting them. These vaccines have been tested in early-stage clinical trials on patients with different types of cancer, including <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/28678778\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">melanoma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30568305\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">glioblastoma<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08507-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kidney cancer, with <\/a>results suggesting they could be effective at preventing cancer recurrence in some patients. \u201cOur mission is to be a frontrunner in testing new directions and technologies,\u201d Wu says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, scientists have sought to create vaccines that treat cancer. Researchers like Dr. Catherine Wu, a professor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47092,9810,103,397,396,61,60,28976,709,47094,12277,139977],"class_list":{"0":"post-296040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-list","16":"tag-magazine","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}