Raul Torres is a member of one of our research groups in our Campus Clínic-UB of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute. He just received a support of the "Lady Tata Memorial Trust" to continue his project in our center. We want to know a little more about him and his work ...

Raul Torres is a member of one of our research groups in our Campus Clínic-UB of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute. He just received a support of the "Lady Tata Memorial Trust" to continue his project in our center. We want to know a little more about him and his work ...

Immunotherapy works by strengthening the body's own immune system so that it can eliminate cancerous cells naturally. The aim is for the immune system to attack the cancerous cells in the desired manner and to detect them if they come back and continue to act. 

This research group from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institut (University of Barcelona Hospital Clínic Campus), has also described the quantification of hematopoietic cells during human fetal development

"There are many challenges. Obviously the main one is to expand the success of CART19 to other CARTs, especially for lymphomas. It is also important to control their side effects and, as in all complicated and expensive therapies, another important challenge is to find a way of making them available to everyone who needs them without that availability depending on the financial resources or location of the people concerned."