# Can sharks help us fight cancer?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- Speaker: Doreen Koenning
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/doreen_koenning_can_sharks_help_us_fight_cancer)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Medicine made from human antibodies help us battle cancer and other diseases — but they blend into our immune system so well, it's difficult to track their side effects. Shark antibodies, by contrast, stand out like a sore thumb. Antibody researcher Doreen Koenning has dedicated her career to studying how these proteins could become a valuable tool in clinical drug trials — and potentially create a new breed of treatment in the fight against cancer.

## Lectures

1. [Can sharks help us fight cancer?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/doreen_koenning_can_sharks_help_us_fight_cancer/31beea25f362), 12 min (TED's player)