One of our MIB Agents OutSmarting Osteosarcoma Young Investigator 2024 grant recipients, Arianexys Aquino-López, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist from Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine will provide an overview of her funded work on Repurposing Virus Specific T cells as Immune Therapy for Osteosarcoma. In this presentation, she discusses repurposing virus-specific T cells so that they become an immune therapy for osteosarcoma. She will also describe how oncolytic virotherapy promotes immune stimulation at the tumor site increasing the anti-tumor activity of virus-specific T cells.Dr. Arianexys Aquino-López is an Instructor at the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Aquino-Lopez is committed to a career as a pediatrician-scientist with a particular interest in improving treatment options for children with cancer through the design of novel immune therapies, including cell therapies and antibody therapies. She is also interested in studying the impact of tumor microenvironment in immune suppression to develop approaches to overcome cancer immune evasion. Witnessing her brother go through pediatric cancer treatment served as an inspiration for her to study ways to improve cancer therapies.
