Location

Rochester, Minnesota

Contact

Kwon.Eugene@mayo.edu Clinical Profile

SUMMARY

Research in the Kwon Lab focuses on methods to evoke a potent immune response to treat relatively advanced forms of malignancy. Specific areas of research pertain to the preclinical and clinical use of novel vaccines and antibodies to activate antitumoral T cells; the use of hormone manipulations to boost or rebuild host immunity; the treatment of patients with immunotherapy in order to induce clinical tumor regression. A special emphasis is placed on developing highly state-of-the-art immunotherapies to be tested in clinical phase I or II trials to treat patients with prostate, kidney or bladder cancer. Research in the Kwon Lab is supported by a DOD NI Award (PC 991568), DOD IDEA Award (PC020574), NCI/NIH R01 (CA82185), a CaPCure Award and a new DOD-sponsored multi-center Phase II Trial Award (DAMD 17-02-1-0245 & DAMD 17-02-1-0245S1) entitled "A phase II immunotherapeutic trial; combined androgen ablative therapy and CTLA-4 blockade as a treatment for advanced prostate cancer".

PROFESSIONAL DETAILS

Primary Appointment

  1. Consultant, Department of Urology

Joint Appointment

  1. Consultant, Department of Immunology

Academic Rank

  1. Professor of Urology
  2. Professor of Immunology

EDUCATION

  1. Post Doctoral Fellowship - National Research Service Award Laboratory of Kidney & Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
  2. Chief Resident - Urology University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  3. Resident - Urology University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  4. Research Fellowship - Urology and Internal Medicine University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  5. Clinical Fellowship - Clinical Oncology Fellow American Cancer Society, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  6. Resident - General Surgery University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  7. MD Rush Medical College
  8. BA - Chemistry Grinnell College
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