303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

1962.952 - 1985.977 James P. Allison

Well, yeah. I mean, in the 70s, nobody knew what the T-cell receptor was. I mean, that was my first thing when I got into immunology was, what is the antigen receptor? What is it that the T-cell uses? And nobody knew what it was. And so I put on my biochemist hat and said, well, what should such a molecule look like? And worked it out and published that for the first time in 82.