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Targeting the immunotherapy potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 with new advancements in protein engineering

Drug Target Review

Difficult-to-treat and rare, complicated cancers remain a perplexing challenge for IO researchers. Research has shown that these immune system proteins have the ability to trigger anti-cancer immune pathways. Clinical development of IL-18 therapies has been curtailed, however, by the protein’s lack of efficacy.