Huberman Lab · March 8, 2026 · 2h 20m

Avoiding, Treating & Curing Cancer With the Immune System

Dr. Alex Marson — UCSF immunologist. Using CRISPR to reprogram immune cells to fight cancer. The frontier of immunotherapy: engineering the patient's own immune system to target and destroy cancer cells with precision.

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CRISPR-based cancer immunotherapy — engineering the patient's own immune system

Marson: take the patient's immune cells, reprogram them with CRISPR to target their specific cancer, put them back. Personalized cancer treatment.

Claude ChatGPT Gemini

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✧UCSF professor and HHMI investigator

✧CRISPR-based immune cell reprogramming

✧The frontier of personalized cancer treatment