Physics Professor Bob Brown, Dr. Bob Deissler, and interdisciplinary collaborators are working to make cancer immunotherapy cheaper and more widely available with new technology, thus making it a more accessible treatment to save lives.

 
Physics Professor Bob Brown and interdisciplinary collaborators are working to make cancer immunotherapy cheaper and more widely available with new technology, thus making it a more accessible treatment to save lives.
 
Learn more about CAR T cell therapy and the approach of the interdisciplinary research team in The Daily, May 29, 2025, feature story here, including about how the laboratories of Robert Brown, a physicist at the College of Arts and Sciences, Susann Brady-Kalnay, a cell biologist at the School of Medicine, and David Wald, an immunologist at the School of Medicine, reached across disciplines and schools to collaborate on this technological innovation.
 
Of special note [excerpt]: This isn’t Brown’s first foray into the physics of blood. He and Case Western Reserve senior research associate Robert Deissler developed a technique to diagnose malaria that relies on the fact that malaria-infected blood carries extra iron—as iron-containing crystals, which are magnetic. This simple diagnostic tool using magnets to detect malaria in blood samples earned them a Patent for Humanity in 2016 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an award recognizing innovators for game-changing technology that meets global humanitarian challenges.
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