Date: Oct. 24, 2023 

Source: School of Medicine

Author: WANG Fang

Translator: LIANG Qianxi

A research team from the JNU's School of Medicine has published a paper titled Targeting VCP potentiates immune checkpoint therapy for colorectal cancer in Cell Reports, a subsidiary periodical of Cell. The corresponding authors are JNU Profs. Zhang Haipeng and Jiang Zhenyou, along with Prof. Li Kai from the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. The first authors are doctoral student Wang Fang, Prof. Qi Qi and Associate Prof. Qin Baifu from JNU.

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This study was supported by the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Outstanding Youth Project of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, the Special Project of Pearl River Science and Technology Rising Star, and the support of JNU's Key Laboratory on Virus Disease Prevention and Control of Ministry of Education.

Link to paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01330-X