Centre
for Immune and Targeted Therapy
Within
the University of Queensland
Affiliated with the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation
Greenslopes Private Hospital
The
Centre for Immune and Targeted Therapy (CITT) focuses on developing
and undertaking clinical trials of state of the art, non-toxic immune
and other novel, targeted therapies for cancer and related disorders.
The therapies have the potential to supersede current toxic therapies
such as chemotherapy or to greatly enhance the clinical outcomes
or quality of life when used in combination with currently available
standard cancer treatments.

The
Director of the CITT, Associate Professor Dr Andrew Nicol (MBBS,
PhD, FRACP, FRCPA), has been undertaking laboratory-based research
into manipulation of human haemopoietic and immune cells for clinical
purposes for over 10 years, in addition to his long standing clinical
trial activity in this field.
Dr
Nicol also has clinical experience in allogeneic and autologous
stem cell transplantation for haemopoietic malignancies. It is this
combination of basic laboratory expertise, clinical research experience
in cell based therapies involving immune system manipulation and
clinical expertise in standard cell based therapies which ensures
the continued success of the CITT in its primary aims of high quality
research output and sustained long-term funding.
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