Latest Cancer immunotherapy Stories
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Dec. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MultiCell Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MCET) presented at the 2012 American Society for Cell Biology® (ASCB®) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, on Tuesday, December 18. Simona Bot, M.D. presented preclinical research results in an abstract titled "Short Synthetic Double Stranded RNA with Dual Activity - Oncolytic and Immune Modulatory - for Hepatocellular Carcinoma." This research was supported by MultiCell via a...
AMES, Iowa, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NewLink Genetics Corporation (Nasdaq: NLNK) today announced that the results of a Phase 1 dose escalation study with its proprietary HyperAcute Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy were published in the Journal of Immunotherapy. The article, entitled "Cellular Immunotherapy Study of Prostate Cancer Patients and Resulting IgG Responses to Peptide Epitopes Predicted From Prostate Tumor-associated Autoantigens," is featured in the current edition of...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody company, today announced the publication of a novel full-length antibody scaffold, applicable to the development of highly thermostable antibodies for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, in the journal of Protein Engineering, Design & Selection (PEDS). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111205/SF16052LOGO) Entitled "An integrated approach to extreme...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 04, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Inc. (OTCBB: ONCS), a company developing its advanced-stage ImmunoPulse DNA-based immunotherapy and NeoPulse therapy to treat solid tumor cancers, announced it will be presenting at the DNA Vaccines 2012 Conference at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, California. OncoSec is a Silver Sponsor of the conference. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110314/MM64943LOGO) The Company will conduct two...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and BRYAN, Texas, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- ImmunGene, Inc. (ImmunGene) and Caliber Biotherapeutics, LLC (Caliber) announced today the launch of Valor Biotherapeutics, LLC (Valor), a joint venture focused on the clinical development and commercialization of monoclonal antibody-interferon (mAb-IFN) fusion protein therapeutics targeting certain cancers. The mAb-IFN fusion protein technology was invented in Professor Sherie Morrison's laboratory at...
Cancers arise in the body all the time. Most are nipped in the bud by the immune response, not least by its T cells, which detect telltale molecular markers—or antigens—on cancer cells and destroy them before they grow into tumors. Cancer cells, for their part, evolve constantly to evade such assassination. Those that succeed become full-blown malignancies. Yet, given the right sort of help, the immune system can destroy even these entrenched tumors. In the October 22nd issue of the...
AMES, Iowa, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NewLink Genetics Corporation (Nasdaq: NLNK) announces launching of an open-label, randomized, multi-institutional Phase 3 study in patients with borderline resectable or locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer. The projected enrollment will be 280 subjects and patients will be randomized (1:1) to receive standard of care FOLFIRINOX plus or minus algenpantucel-L (HyperAcute®-Pancreas) immunotherapy. The primary endpoint of the study...
NEW YORK and GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, today announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to advance the research of immunotherapy in cancer. Specifically, the research will focus on clinical trials to test novel combinations of immunotherapies, including three investigational monoclonal antibodies from MedImmune's...
SEATTLE, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of novel Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonists and antagonists today announced the formation of an exclusive, world-wide collaboration with Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) for the development of VTX-2337, a highly potent and selective TLR8 agonist for the treatment of cancer. As part of the strategic agreement, Celgene will retain the exclusive...
AMES, Iowa, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NewLink Genetics Corporation (Nasdaq: NLNK) announces the launching of an open-label, randomized, multi-institutional adaptive design Phase2B/3 study to evaluate efficacy of its tergenpumatucel-L (HyperAcute® Lung) product candidate in patients with progressive or relapsed Stage-IIIB/IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The Phase 2B portion of the study will evaluate two dosing schedules for tergenpumatucel-L versus docetaxel and the Phase...
