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Imugene (ASX: IMU)

Imugene Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, and commercialisation of health technologies against cancer. The company is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. The firm is engaged in developing a range of new immunotherapies that seek to activate the immune system of cancer patients to treat and eradicate tumors. Its product pipeline includes multiple immunotherapy B-cell vaccine candidates and an oncolytic virotherapy (CF33) aimed at treating a variety of cancers in combination with standard of care drugs and emerging immunotherapies, such as CAR T’s for solid tumors. Its PD-1 B-cell immunotherapy (PD1-Vaxx), aims to induce the body to produce polyclonal antibodies that block PD-1 signaling, and thus produce an anticancer effect. Its HER-Vaxx is a B-cell activating cancer immunotherapy designed to treat tumors that over-express the HER-2/neu receptor, such as gastric, breast, ovarian, lung and pancreatic cancers. Its clinical trial candidates include VAXINIA (CF33 + hNIS), CHECKvacc (CF33 + hNIS + PD-L1), B-Vaxx and others.

Here are the latest articles on Imugene (ASX: IMU)

This article is like The Magic School Bus

CF33-hNIS-antiPDL1. *moves mouse to x button to close tab* “But wait!” your writer screams from the page, “I promise it’s interesting!”  Whilst I may not have the teaching prowess of Ms Frizzle, I implore you to stick around, because Imugene’s (ASX: IMU) immuno-oncology stuff is really interesting once you wrap your head around it. The

Imugene partners with multi billion dollar global pharma company, Merck & Co for new trial

Since securing a European patent for their proprietary cancer vaccine HER-Vaxx, Imugene (ASX: IMU) have been busy. The Company has now announced the initiation of new clinical trials  in collaboration with global pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK). The USD $46 billion company will support Imugene in evaluating the efficacy and safety of HER-Vaxx

Imugene secures patent for new cancer vaccine in major oncology market

Cancer treatment is slowly shifting away from the standard chemo and radiation and more towards immunotherapy as an alternative treatment. Unlike chemotherapy which destroys healthy, rapidly dividing cells in the body, immunotherapy is more targeted, using the patient’s own immune system to fight cancer. Chemotherapy’s attack on healthy cells causes the well known side effects

Curing sickness with viruses: How Imugene is using oncolytic viruses to treat cancer

Despite the many advances in cancer therapy, we still haven’t quite hit the nail on the head, with cancer still responsible for 12% of all deaths worldwide each year.  The advancement of cancer therapies and the growing body of research is impressive to say the least, yet cancer patients of today do not fare much

FDA approves Imugene to commence human trial for lung cancer immunotherapy

Biopharma company Imugene (ASX: IMU) is now on their way towards commercialisation of their lung cancer treatment with approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence human trials. With the project name PD1-Vaxx in the US, the approval enables Imugene to commence recruiting patients for a clinical trial of the treatment on