By: Nicole Sweeney Etter – Penn Medicine News –
For more than a decade, Penn Medicine clinical research nurse Joanne Shea, MS, BSN, RN, has had a front-row seat to the groundbreaking research underway in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies. As Abramson Cancer Center patients volunteer to participate in clinical trials of investigational treatments, often at a time when they have an incurable cancer that is resistant to conventional treatments, Shea does her part to advance the science.
Shea had always been intrigued by research, and she was hooked after working on one of the earliest trailblazing studies of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell therapy to treat lymphoma patients…
