Multiple SA institutions collaborate on cancer research involving TB vaccine

The Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Southwest Research Institute and UT Health San Antonio are teaming on a nonsurgical treatment for bladder cancer. Texas Biomed professor Jordi Torrelles and UT Health San Antonio’s Dr. Robert Svatek will be principle investigators on the new project. They will study the use of a modified Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette et Guérin, or BCG, vaccine as a treatment for a type of cancer that is expected t o affect more than 2% of the world’s population…
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