Sentences with phrase «other therapeutic vaccines»

Provenge and other therapeutic vaccines involve personalized therapy that targets the patient's specific tumor.

They're basically «souped up» and have much more proliferative capacity than those that that have been elicited with other therapeutic vaccines.

Not exact matches

The FDA recently okayed the first therapeutic cancer vaccine, and other drugs that enlist the immune system against tumors are under study

Of more than 50 therapeutic vaccine trials so far, this is the first one that has bolstered the immune system in a «meaningful» way, says Steven Deeks, an HIV / AIDS clinician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who is «cautiously optimistic» that the data will inspire others to study the approach.

Some also consider vaccines a form of enhancement aimed at making people healthier by reducing the probability of disease, although others consider vaccines to be firmly rooted in medical or therapeutic treatment, not enhancement.5

Through strategic partnerships with industry and nonprofit organizations, we gain access to a portfolio of priority drugs for testing within our expert focus groups, including checkpoint inhibitors, therapeutic vaccines, innate immune stimulants, targeted therapies, and many other promising treatments and technologies with high therapeutic potential.

«Nevertheless, this is a potentially exciting finding and it is possible that nivolumab, most likely in combination with other approaches such as therapeutic vaccines, may have a role in the eventual discovery of a cure for HIV.»

A phase 2 study of the therapeutic vaccine is currently underway in other centers in patients with recurrent disease to see if it can help extend 12 - month survival.

BPRC applies molecular, biochemical and immunological know - how to provide new vaccine and therapeutic strategies for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis C and other infectious diseases.

Through the CIC program, the Cancer Research Institute conducts a number of important initiatives that seek among other things to build consensus across the field on key issues, to develop and implement new standards for carrying out and reporting immunological monitoring assays of therapeutic cancer vaccines, and to establish and promote the adoption of new criteria for evaluating the clinical impact of cancer immunotherapies.

Most recently, CRI has launched a new «venture philanthropy» program called the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF) as a means to catalyze development of next - generation therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies by helping to address the critical shortage of capital available for early stage clinical trials.

«Based on the clinical evidence we've gathered over the past decade in our cancer vaccine trials,» Old said, «and in light of data from a variety of trials by others within the field, we believe therapeutic cancer vaccines will increasingly emerge as one of the safest and most powerful ways to combat a variety of cancers.»

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