Carolina Alumni's video: Morphing Skin Into Stem Cells That Kill Cancer

Dr. Shawn Hingtgen, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member and assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy who specializes in gene and cell therapy, discusses the exciting breakthrough he and his team are working on at UNC: morphing your skin into stem cells that seek out and kill cancer. With a little bit of skin and a little bit of time, this will become a remarkable therapy. Using a strong interdisciplinary team of basic scientists and clinicians, they are testing this novel treatment against many of the most aggressive types of cancer. The ultimate goal is to translate this therapy into the clinical setting, where they can provide clinicians with a powerful new therapy capable of fighting these diseases and bringing hope to patients.