Interaction of Immune and Cancer Cells

Magdalena Klink received her PhD in Immunology at the University of Lodz, Poland, in 1994. She was Senior Research Assistant at the Microbiology and Virology Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland and Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Immunology, College of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Republic of Korea. In 2005 she completed her post-doctoral studies in Immunology (Habilitation). Since 2011 she is Professor at the Institute for Medical Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lodz, Poland.

Immune cells within tumor microenvironment.- Tumor-stroma interaction and cancer progression.- The role of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) in tumor progression.- Dendritic cells dysfunction and tumor progression.- Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) and tumor growth.- Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and their role in solid tumor progression.- Polymorphonuclear neutrophils and tumor: friend or foe?.- Cancer immunosurveillance and immunoediting.- Adoptive T cell immunotherapy – Perfecting self-defense.- Monoclonal antibodies to CTLA4 with focus on ipilimumab.