Nobel prize in chemistry to PRIMA collaborator

Earlier this year, Precision Immunotherapy Alliance (PRIMA) PI and co-director professor Johanna Olweus received a large Cancer Grand Challenges grant funded by Cancer Research UK and NIH together with a global team “MATCHMAKERS”. Within this team is the Nobel prize winner in chemistry 2024 David Baker who got the prize for his work on computational protein design. Professor Jan Terje Andersen is another PI within PRIMA that has followed Baker’s work closely over the years and he is currently collaborating with one of Baker’s many spin-out companies.

Links:

Original news article from the PRIMA home page:
Nobel prize in chemistry to PRIMA collaborator (prima.uio.no)


Olweus group home page - Experimental Immunotherapy

Andersen group home page - Adaptive Immunity and Homeostasis


Previous relevant news articles:

The PRecision Immunotherapy Alliance (PRIMA) funded with 155 mNOK (ous-research.no)

Johanna Olweus and her research group first in the Nordics to be on team selected for Cancer Grand Challenges funding (ous-research.no)

Large global grant for Johanna Olweus to Decipher the T-cell receptor cancer-recognition code with the Grand Challenges team MATCHMAKERS (prima.uio.no)

Johanna Olweus interviewed for The Scientist on next-generation cancer therapies (ous-research.no)