To the surprise of researchers, certain diets often considered “unhealthy” or “fattening” were associated with better responses to a type of cancer immunotherapy.

"There is a synergistic relationship between the bacteria that reside in our GI tract, and the food we eat,” said Daniela Quail, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Principal Investigator at the Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute.

(Boston)—Joshua D. Campbell, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $3.4M U01 grant from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) for the project, “Integrative biomarkers to improve clinical management of lung ground glass nodules.” Campbell and colleagues led the establishment of the Lung Pre-Cancer Atlas, a cellular map of the earliest stages of lung cancer during the first round of HTAN funding (Phase I - A. Spira). This Phase II award will allow the team to begin to translate the Lung Pre-Cancer Atlas efforts into clinically useful biomarkers.