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Why one cancer expert says ‘anyone’ can become an immunotherapist

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Speaking to The Washington Post Tuesday, Drew Pardoll, Director of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Johns Hopkins, said understanding immunology isn’t that hard if you think of it like a car. “You need the gas pedal to go, but you also need the brakes,” Pardoll said, likening the brakes to FDA approvals. “The immune system can steer itself very carefully in a very focused way.”