Cancer Research Institute By codyg May 15, 1953 Founding of the Cancer Research Institute May 16, 1972 Nobel Prize for Antibody Discoveries May 16, 1973 Nobel Prize for Cancer Causes May 16, 1973 First Humanized Antibodies Created May 16, 1985 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Developed May 16, 1987 Leukapheresis Invented May 16, 1996 Tetramer Technology Defined Mark M. Davis, at Stanford University Cancer Center, defines tetramer technology, permitting clinicians to monitor patients’ immune responses to cancer vaccines, as well as to study endogenous T cell responses to cancer. May 16, 2008 New Bispecific Antibody Technology Developed May 16, 2010 First Tetramers to Monitor CD4+ T Cell Responses May 16, 2010 Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network Established
