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Vaccine Innovations: Hope for Cancer Patients Amid COVID

10/31/2025

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Jason McLellan of The University of Texas at Austin advanced vaccine design by engineering stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and published the spike structure in February 2020.
His work earned him the MacArthur Fellowship to support innovative research.
Studies from the University of Florida and MD Anderson Cancer Center suggest COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may improve survival for cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy, potentially advancing a universal cancer vaccine.

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Jason McLellan of The University of Texas at Austin advanced vaccine design by engineering stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and published the spike structure in February 2020.
His work earned him the MacArthur Fellowship to support innovative research.
Studies from the University of Florida and MD Anderson Cancer Center suggest COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may improve survival for cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy, potentially advancing a universal cancer vaccine.