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Photo of Michel Sadelain in his lab at Columbia University Photos by Matthew Lester

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Cell Service

A body doesn’t mount an immune response to cancer, because cancer is one’s own cells, not an invader. In the late 1980s Michel Sadelain wondered, ‘Why not engineer our own T‑cells and put them to work?’ People thought it a folly, if they thought about the idea at all. But that curious musing changed medicine

By Curtis Gillespie, ’85 BA(Spec)

Photo of Michel Sadelain in his lab at Columbia University Photos by Matthew Lester

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