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New class of antibody cancer drug shows promise

Drug Discovery World

Results from the trial, published in Nature Communications , found that MOv18 IgE was well-tolerated in the majority of patients and was able to shrink the tumour of a patient with ovarian cancer who had not responded to conventional therapy.

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Not all neoantigens are created equal

Drug Target Review

In most cancers, the tumour evolves by acquiring mutations that confer growth advantages or resistance to therapies. These neoantigens are identified by T cells of the immune system as foreign proteins and thus trigger an immune response. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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4-1BB and the critical importance of local control

SugarCone Biotech

[link] Immunity is complex and can be dangerous when exploited clinically, as demonstrated by the lethal administration of TNF, or anti-CD40L antibody (Biogen) or CAR-T cells expressing the CD16 Fc-receptor (Unum), among many other examples. This is the T cell type most closely associated with anti-tumor immune responses.

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Merck and Moderna to jointly develop personalised cancer vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

Merck has exercised its option to jointly develop and commercialise personalised cancer vaccine (PCV) mRNA-4157/V940 pursuant to the terms of its existing collaboration and license agreement with Moderna. . KEYNOTE-942 is an ongoing randomised, open-label Phase II trial that enrolled 157 patients with high-risk melanoma.

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Phase II/III trial to assess LAG-3 immunotherapy in breast cancer 

Drug Discovery World

Efti As a first-in-class soluble LAG-3 protein targeting MHC Class II ligands on antigen-presenting cells (APC), efti is positioned to improve clinical outcomes from standard-of-care chemotherapy. Its activation of APCs (e.g., month median overall survival (mOS) improvement, statistically significant mOS improvements between 4.2

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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

Drug Target Review

We are in an era of immuno-oncology (IO) revolution with many approved therapies now available to treat a broad range of cancers. Generally, IO has been focused on harnessing the anti-tumour activity of certain cancer-fighting T-cells , a key cell type involved in the adaptive immune defense system.