Nils Graber
Biographic Data
| ID | 914632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nils Graber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nils |
| FAMILY NAME | Graber |
| SIGNATURE | GRABER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale, Société |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8644-0351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Responding to Covid-19 through participation. The Cuban experience of community engagement
Cuba’s COVID-19 response relied on grassroots mobilization across community and healthcare settings. • Non-healthcare actors allowed local adaptations to face the pandemic • They helped attenuate vulnerabilities induced by response measures • Their implication also meant carrying a high burden of risk management • The COVID-19 pandemic expanded community participation in Cuba
Between technology transfer and South–South collaboration
The collaboration between the Cuban Centre of Molecular Immunology (CIM) and the Indian firm Biocon challenges conventional understandings of technology transfer. Initiated in 2003, the joint venture was a unique experiment in South–South biopharmaceutical collaboration. It brought into relation two distinct innovation regimes: Cuba’s public health–oriented model, closely tied to the state and its medical diplomacy, and India’s market-driven biop…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Reflections on the opportunities and challenges of applying experience‐based co‐design (EBCD) to phase 1 clinical trials in oncology
BACKGROUND: Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) is a multi-stage participatory action research process which was developed originally to increase patient involvement in service improvement initiatives. This viewpoint article serves as a reflection on the researchers' experiences, focusing on the application and feasibility of participatory approaches, particularly co-design, in the specific context of early-phase clinical trials. METHODS: We reflec…
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies
This article explores the development of T cell-based therapies in Switzerland. These therapies, which elicit the immunological potential of each patient to respond to tumor development, constitute a major promise for so-called ‘precision oncology’. We document how immunological concepts, technologies, and practices are articulated given the centrality of genomics in ‘precision oncology’. We consider ‘precision immunotherapies’ to probe whether a…
Anthropology of new chronicities
In the introduction to the special issue, Greco and Graber discuss the concept of chronicity and the ways it is used in the contributions to the special issue. Historians have shown that the concept of chronic disease has its origins in policy and has always been fluid and vague; however, the classic literature in sociology and nursing has focused on modelling the evolution of chronic disease rather than on examining the concept itself. In the in…
Vaccinal chronicity
The Cuban biotechnology industry is producing cancer immunotherapy, in particular, therapeutic vaccines that actively stimulate the immune system to stabilise the tumour. These products aim to transform metastatic malignancies into a chronic disease. Since 2010, this therapeutic concept has been integrated within a public health experiment, consisting of the large distribution of immunotherapies, including in primary healthcare centres, to enhanc…
Epistemic dwelling
This paper details how the architectural features of a new cancer research center (henceforth “NCRC”) contribute to the alignment of different institutional settings, epistemic approaches and communities of practices around precision immuno-oncology. First, we show how the building’s designed emplacement produces an organizational change directed at accelerating the traffic of discoveries and the collaborations across basic research and clinical …
An alternative imaginary of community engagement
This paper analyzes a form of community engagement that differs from the way it is usually conceived and practiced in the domain of global health. This story takes place in the Cuban context and more specifically in a recent programme of oncology clinical trials implemented in primary healthcare (PHC) centres. By considering both the genealogy of this program and local interactions between PHC professionals and patients and their close relatives,…
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Les biotechnologies cubaines sous l’angle des circulations globales
Cet article porte sur les circulations de personnes, de savoirs et de techniques qui ont accompagné l’essor des biotechnologies à Cuba. En considérant le développement scientifique du pays depuis la révolution de 1959, nous montrerons que la plupart des coopérations dans ce domaine se sont établies avec des pays d’Europe occidentale et d’Amérique du Nord, se situant ainsi à contre-courant des relations internationales de l’île alors étroitement l…
Les activités d'un réseau d'ONG à Cuba
À partir d’une monographie d’un réseau d’ONG européen s’attachant à développer le système de santé cubain, cet article analyse un dispositif d’aide réinterrogeant les soubassements politiques de l’aide internationale et de la « santé globale ». Militant contre l’embargo étasunien, ce réseau vise à le contourner pour acheminer des technologies médicales bloquées. Récemment, les activités se sont réorientées vers le renforcement du modèle sanitaire…
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies
This article explores the development of T cell-based therapies in Switzerland. These therapies, which elicit the immunological potential of each patient to respond to tumor development, constitute a major promise for so-called ‘precision oncology’. We document how immunological concepts, technologies, and practices are articulated given the centrality of genomics in ‘precision oncology’. We consider ‘precision immunotherapies’ to probe whether a…
Les activités d'un réseau d'ONG à Cuba
À partir d’une monographie d’un réseau d’ONG européen s’attachant à développer le système de santé cubain, cet article analyse un dispositif d’aide réinterrogeant les soubassements politiques de l’aide internationale et de la « santé globale ». Militant contre l’embargo étasunien, ce réseau vise à le contourner pour acheminer des technologies médicales bloquées. Récemment, les activités se sont réorientées vers le renforcement du modèle sanitaire…
This Issue
International audience
Les biotechnologies cubaines sous l’angle des circulations globales
Cet article porte sur les circulations de personnes, de savoirs et de techniques qui ont accompagné l’essor des biotechnologies à Cuba. En considérant le développement scientifique du pays depuis la révolution de 1959, nous montrerons que la plupart des coopérations dans ce domaine se sont établies avec des pays d’Europe occidentale et d’Amérique du Nord, se situant ainsi à contre-courant des relations internationales de l’île alors étroitement l…
An alternative imaginary of community engagement
This paper analyzes a form of community engagement that differs from the way it is usually conceived and practiced in the domain of global health. This story takes place in the Cuban context and more specifically in a recent programme of oncology clinical trials implemented in primary healthcare (PHC) centres. By considering both the genealogy of this program and local interactions between PHC professionals and patients and their close relatives,…
Epistemic dwelling
This paper details how the architectural features of a new cancer research center (henceforth “NCRC”) contribute to the alignment of different institutional settings, epistemic approaches and communities of practices around precision immuno-oncology. First, we show how the building’s designed emplacement produces an organizational change directed at accelerating the traffic of discoveries and the collaborations across basic research and clinical …
Anthropology of new chronicities
In the introduction to the special issue, Greco and Graber discuss the concept of chronicity and the ways it is used in the contributions to the special issue. Historians have shown that the concept of chronic disease has its origins in policy and has always been fluid and vague; however, the classic literature in sociology and nursing has focused on modelling the evolution of chronic disease rather than on examining the concept itself. In the in…
Vaccinal chronicity
The Cuban biotechnology industry is producing cancer immunotherapy, in particular, therapeutic vaccines that actively stimulate the immune system to stabilise the tumour. These products aim to transform metastatic malignancies into a chronic disease. Since 2010, this therapeutic concept has been integrated within a public health experiment, consisting of the large distribution of immunotherapies, including in primary healthcare centres, to enhanc…
Reflections on the opportunities and challenges of applying experience‐based co‐design (EBCD) to phase 1 clinical trials in oncology
BACKGROUND: Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) is a multi-stage participatory action research process which was developed originally to increase patient involvement in service improvement initiatives. This viewpoint article serves as a reflection on the researchers' experiences, focusing on the application and feasibility of participatory approaches, particularly co-design, in the specific context of early-phase clinical trials. METHODS: We reflec…
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies
This article explores the development of T cell-based therapies in Switzerland. These therapies, which elicit the immunological potential of each patient to respond to tumor development, constitute a major promise for so-called ‘precision oncology’. We document how immunological concepts, technologies, and practices are articulated given the centrality of genomics in ‘precision oncology’. We consider ‘precision immunotherapies’ to probe whether a…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Responding to Covid-19 through participation. The Cuban experience of community engagement
Cuba’s COVID-19 response relied on grassroots mobilization across community and healthcare settings. • Non-healthcare actors allowed local adaptations to face the pandemic • They helped attenuate vulnerabilities induced by response measures • Their implication also meant carrying a high burden of risk management • The COVID-19 pandemic expanded community participation in Cuba
Between technology transfer and South–South collaboration
The collaboration between the Cuban Centre of Molecular Immunology (CIM) and the Indian firm Biocon challenges conventional understandings of technology transfer. Initiated in 2003, the joint venture was a unique experiment in South–South biopharmaceutical collaboration. It brought into relation two distinct innovation regimes: Cuba’s public health–oriented model, closely tied to the state and its medical diplomacy, and India’s market-driven biop…
Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (3 works) · Biomedicine (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Global Health and Surgery (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bioinformatics (2 works)