New Strategies for Treating Cancer

 

Scientific infographic created using BioRender describing new emerging methods for targeting cancer, such as mutation-specific drugs, vaccines, and targeting the tumor microenvironment, which has a role in immune evasion.

Client: BioRender
Year: 2021
Media: BioRender, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya


An infographic created using and for BioRender, a tool that aids researchers, students, and scientists in creating professional figures using pre-made icons and templates. It describes emerging methods for tackling cancer, such as mutation-specific drugs, vaccines, and targeting the microenvironment around the tumour itself, using a KRAS-mutant tumour as an example. I created the tumour icon as a new BioRender asset for this infographic, and the infographic was created in collaboration with Michie Wu.

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