Sam
Charles
DFCI history
Cancer Immunotherapy
Boston Stuff
100

Sam's PhD student who he works with

Who is Connor?

100

Charles's postdoc that he works with

Who is Camila?

100

In 1947, Dr. Farber achieved the world's first successful remisssion of ALL in children by introducing this non-standard treatment

chemotherapy

100

Often utilized as a model antigen to track tetramer kinetics in syngeneic mouse models, this protein makes up about 60% of the total protein in egg whites.

What is ovalbumin?

100

Held every October, this massive three-day rowing event draws over 11,000 athletes to the Charles River, making it the world's largest race of its kind.

What is the Head of the Charles Regatta?

200

Sam's favorite room to do TC

What is the lenti room?

200

His sport in college

What is rowing?

200

The author of the Emperor of all Maladies

Who is Siddhartha Mukherjee?

200

Driven by chronic TCR stimulation, this high-mobility group (HMG)-box transcription factor is now recognized as the central epigenetic master regulator that permanently commits CD8+ T cells to an "exhausted" state.

What is TOX?

200

This Boston neighborhood, known for its shops, restaurants, and proximity to Boston University, is centered around the intersection of Beacon Street and Harvard Street.

What is coolidge corner

300

Sams favorite lunch

What is eggs and sweet potato?

300

Charles' Hometown

What is Needham, Massachusetts?

300

In 1948, a pediatric patient dubbed "Jimmy" spoke on national radio from his hospital bed to raise money for a TV so he could watch this Boston baseball team, launching a massive charity movement.

Who are the Boston Braves?

300

This inhibitory receptor, often highly expressed on exhausted T cells in the tumor microenvironment, binds to CD155 and is currently being targeted in clinical trials by agents like tiragolumab.

What is TIGIT?

300

Spanning the Charles River to connect Boston's West End to Charlestown, this bridge is famous for its distinctive concrete Y-shaped towers and cables.

What is the Zakim Bridge?

400

This Dutch university, founded in 1575, is Sam’s home university.

What is Leiden University

400

Charles' dog's name

Who is Truman?

400

Cancer's gross appearance resembled this animal leading to its name as cancer.

What is a crab?

400

This transcription factor is a driver of tissue-resident memory T cell differentiation, tissue retention, and cytotoxic function.

What is Hobit?

400

To get an Uber from downtown Boston directly to Logan Airport, your driver will likely take this tunnel, named after a famous Boston Red Sox left fielder.

What is the Ted Williams Tunnel?

500

Colors of Sam's hometown (you can use your phone)

What is the Green & Yellow?

500

Favorite Fast Food

What is Taco Bell?

500

The cancer that Drs. Emil Frei III and Norman Jaffe first used pre-operative chemotherapy to facilitate the world's first limb-salvage surgeries

What is osteosarcoma

500

These 15–31 amino acid peptides, extended beyond the minimal 8–14 amino acid CD8⁺ T-cell epitope, are used in neoantigen vaccines because they must first be taken up and processed by professional antigen-presenting cells, reducing direct MHC-I loading on non-specialized cells and promoting effective T-cell priming.

What are synthetic long peptides (SLPs)?

500

Just a short walk down Beals Street from the main intersection of Coolidge Corner, you'll find a National Historic Site marking the 1917 birthplace of this U.S. President.

Who is JFK?