Olivera J. Finn, PhD, is featured.

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Olivera J. Finn, PhD, a professor in the Departments of Immunology and Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, won the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer 2019 Richard V. Smalley, MD, Memorial Award and Lectureship. Finn's research focuses on tumor antigens and cancer vaccines. She and her team identified a novel immune response to the MUC1 tumor antigen and have been developing MUC1 cancer vaccines in breast, colon, pancreatic, and other cancers.

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