When meals make the daily lives of patients easier
The hospital environment combines excellence of care, rigorous hygiene and diversity in terms of the length of patient stays and variety of pathologies. In this environment, there has been a global raising of awareness to the role catering has to play in patient recovery and the fact that meal and snack times are sources of well-being for patients and their visitors.
Despite advances in immunotherapy, a large fraction of cancer patients fails to respond. Immune mechanisms behind this resistance are poorly elucidated. The objective of our research program is to comprehensively characterize and study the role of a new class of white blood cells, called resident memory T cells (TRM), in antitumor immunity and response to cancer immunotherapy.