Original post at AABB.org - here Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD, will receive the title of National Blood Foundation Scholar during the NBF’s annual reception on Monday, Oct. 15, from 6-7:30 pm. The NBF chose to honor D’Alessandro to recognize the completion of the research study* he began with funds from a 2016 NBF early-career Scientific Research Grant. Between being awarded the grant in 2016 and receiving the title of Scholar this year, D’Alessandro has enjoyed a few successes:

Researchers find T cells elicited from subunit vaccines do not depend on glucose for reproduction Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that disease-fighting T cells, elicited from vaccines, do not require glucose for their rapid reproduction, a finding with major implications for the development of immunotherapies for cancer patients. In the study, published today in the journal Science Immunology, researchers at CU Anschutz along w