They are exploiting a growing understanding of the immune system to
develop therapeutic vaccines: ones aimed not at preventing infection but at rooting out established disease or even changing how the body functions.
«Our goal is to use immunotherapy to change the immune system's response by
developing a therapeutic vaccine for food allergies.»
Not exact matches
University of Queensland researchers have
developed a world - first
vaccine - style
therapeutic approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating disease affecting more than 450,000 people in Australia.
Kwak has
developed anti-cancer
therapeutic vaccines to spark an immune system attack against tumors, but their effectiveness has been hindered by factors such as MDSCs that stifle immune response.
A new
therapeutic vaccine, GTL001,
developed by Genticel to clear HPV strains 16 and 18 — the types most likely to cause cancer — is being evaluated for safety in a Phase I clinical trial at the University of Louisville.
Oncophage, the
therapeutic vaccine for kidney cancer
developed by Pramod Srivastava, is approved in Russia, making it the first
therapeutic vaccine worldwide to be approved for patients.
The trial was part of the Cancer
Vaccine Collaborative, a joint program between the Cancer Research Institute and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research to
develop therapeutic cancer
vaccines.
Lizée and colleagues are
developing a different type of
vaccine called a
therapeutic vaccine, which triggers an attack against established cancer.
A
therapeutic cervical cancer
vaccine was
developed and tested in women with advanced disease.
Our group is using in vitro and vivo models to help study various pathogenic organisms to better understand the risk that they pose to the blood supply and to help
develop vaccine and
therapeutic options.
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.
For farm animals, they offer
therapeutic products to treat parasitic and bacterial diseases and are also continually
developing new
vaccines to prevent diseases in livestock and farmed fish.