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Turning the Tumor Microenvironment Against Cancer with MGB's Alexander Cryer, Ph.D.
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- Cell & Gene: The Podcast
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- Dec 18, 2025
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We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. In Episode 118, Host Erin Harris talks to Alexander Cryer, Ph.D., Instructor in Medicine at Mass General Brigham, about a proof of concept strategy that reprograms tumor cells with mRNA lipid nanoparticles to overactivate the cGAS-STING pathway, forcing cancer cells to produce and export large amounts of the innate immune agonist cGAMP to stimulate surrounding immune cells and drive anti-tumor immunity. Dr. Cryer explains the basic biolog...