Blocking an enzyme may improve melanoma immunotherapy outcomes

Published Date: 08 Apr 2025

About 65% of melanoma patients do not respond to immunotherapy. New work by the team of Prof. Max Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology) discovered that an enzyme called HPGDS (expressed in a specific subset of ...

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