NCI funds cancer immunologists to investigate differing antibody responses to coronavirus

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Antibodies produced by a patient can potentially exacerbate a viral disease, such as COVID-19. With new funding from the National Cancer Institute, a research team at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center will investigate the possibility that some patients make antibodies that do not protect against SARS-CoV-2 virus, but rather enhance viral infection. Identification of such nonprotective antibodies could explain why some patients have worse outcomes, and e...