At the Malaghan Institute for Biomedical Reserach,researchers are developing third generation CART immunotherapy treatments which aim to be more effective with less side effects than previous therapies.
Using patients own modified Tcells, CART therapy has the ability to vanquish cancer cells, vastly improving outcomes of once life threatening diseases.
This year, 2019, Rob hopes to begin clinical trials for CART therapy in New Zealand through the collaboration of scientists from the Malaghan Institute and international researchers. He is optimistic that this next generation treatment will present a new paradigm for treatment of lymphomas and possibly for other cancers in the future.

Dr Robert Weinkove is Clinical Director of the Malaghan Institute, a biomedical research institute in Wellington, New Zealand.
After studying medicine at the University of Cambridge and Kings College London, Rob trained in Haematology in London and Germany before moving to New Zealand in 2008 and gaining a doctorate with the University of Otago.

Rob is a key member of the Cancer Immunotherapy Programme to develop and manufacture ‘chimeric antigen receptor’ (CAR) Tcells for treatment of lymphoma and other blood cancers. He also holds a joint role as a Haematologist at Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre.

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Dr Robert Weinkove is Clinical Director of the Malaghan Institute, a biomedical research institute in Wellington, New Zealand and holds a joint role as a Haematologist at Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre.

After studying medicine at the University of Cambridge and Kings College London, Rob trained in Haematology in London and Germany before moving to New Zealand in 2008 and gaining a doctorate with the University of Otago.

Rob is a key member of the Cancer Immunotherapy Programme at the Malaghan Institute, where he leads a programme to develop and manufacture ‘chimeric antigen receptor’ (CAR) Tcells for treatment of lymphoma and other blood cancers. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx