Comment I work with one of the authors! (Score 2) 76
This is so cool! I work just down the hall from Dr. Kaufman at CINJ. His lab is one of the labs developing these herpes virus cancer therapies. My lab uses vaccinia, the smallpox vaccine virus, doing similar research (I'm also working on a melanoma model). We use GM-CSF just like this one, but also add in some tumor-specific antigens to increase targeting to the tumors.
It's quite exciting stuff, and we even had a promising clinical trial against pancreatic cancer recently.