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A remarkable thing happened…

Serendipitously, we were at Penn Medicine filming the video for this project the day FDA approval for CAR-T cell therapy came through. We captured the tears and the celebration as the realization set in: decades of hard work had paid off. The future of medicine would look different from that day on.

what we did

Campaign strategy
Print + web case statement
Video

A man and a woman, smiling excitedly, wearing Penn Immunotherapy shirts that read, "A remarkable thing happened: FDA approval of CAR-T cell therapy"
A man with a microphone, at left, addresses a crowd of people wearing Penn Immunotherapy T-shirts.

This mini-campaign helped Penn Medicine explain the revolution underway rooted in their work, inspiring donors and rallying support around the limitless potential of immunotherapy. An accessible, CASE award-winning book and companion video gave immunotherapy’s key players the opportunity to tell the story of this amazing breakthrough in their own words.

Top-down view of selected book spreads from A Remarkable Thing Happened, the Penn Immunotherapy case
Image of Carl H. June, M.D. (left) with a graphic overlay at right quoting Dr. June on the importance of philanthropy in cancer research