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Eugene D. Kwon, M.D.

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Eugene D. Kwon, M.D.
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Location: Minnesota
  • Primary Appointment
  • Urology
  • Joint Appointment
  • Immunology
  • Academic Rank
  • Professor of Immunology
  • Professor of Urology

Summary

Research in the Kwon Lab focuses on methods to evoke a potent immune response to treat relatively advanced forms of malignancy. Specific areas of research pertain to the preclinical and clinical use of novel vaccines and antibodies to activate antitumoral T cells; the use of hormone manipulations to boost or rebuild host immunity; the treatment of patients with immunotherapy in order to induce clinical tumor regression. A special emphasis is placed on developing highly state-of-the-art immunotherapies to be tested in clinical phase I or II trials to treat patients with prostate, kidney or bladder cancer. Research in the Kwon Lab is supported by a DOD NI Award (PC 991568), DOD IDEA Award (PC020574), NCI/NIH R01 (CA82185), a CaPCure Award and a new DOD-sponsored multi-center Phase II Trial Award (DAMD 17-02-1-0245 & DAMD 17-02-1-0245S1) entitled "A phase II immunotherapeutic trial; combined androgen ablative therapy and CTLA-4 blockade as a treatment for advanced prostate cancer".

Recent publications

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Education

Post Doctoral Fellowship – National Research Service Award
Laboratory of Kidney & Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Chief Resident – Urology
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Residency – Urology
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Research Fellowship – Urology and Internal Medicine
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Clinical Fellowship – Clinical Oncology Fellow
American Cancer Society, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Residency – General Surgery
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

M.D.
Rush Medical College

B.A. – Chemistry
Grinnell College


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